I'm thrilled to say that my cookbook is now available. Amazon doesn't have an image up yet but there is one (favorable) customer review already.
As far as I know, this is the first cookbook focused on bringing together local and vegan foods, though the connection seems obvious to me. It's always frustrated me to go to vegetarian food festivals and find myself surrounded by processed foods. There's a lot more to eating ethically than just avoiding meat, in fact, every argument you can give for eating a vegetarian or vegan diet applies just as well to eating a diet of local, seasonal foods. It's healthy, environmentally sustainable, and also humane: the small-scale farmers who we support when we eat locally grown foods tend to care about animal habitat and also treat their workers better than they're treated by industrial farms.
The book is published by Book Publishing Company, which is affiliated with the longstanding intentional community The Farm, in Tennessee. It was a pleasure to work with these folks, who are mostly vegan and also grow a lot of their own food. They get it.
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Pretty neat that you worked with The Farm, I became enamored with the place (or some concept of it) from reading Ina May Gaskin's midwifery books about home birthing on The Farm. Congratulations! Will you have your book for loan from your wonderful personal library?
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