Diet for a Changing Climate: Food for Thought by Christy Mihaly, Sue Heavenrich
Published by Twenty-First Century Books (Tm) on August 1st 2018
ISBN: 1512481211
Pages: 128
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Not for the faint of heart, Diet for a Changing Climate, encourages readers to change their diet in an effort to reduce their carbon footprint.  Better than fighting climate change by reducing car emissions, this books argues that changing our world’s reliance on farming, which leads to flooding, deforestations and high carbon emissions, can make a greater impact.  Countless suggestions for adapting to an alternative daily diet include eating insects, certain weeds, invasive plants like kudzu, even invasive species like iguanas, mussels and types of fish like tilapia. Recipes are provided throughout each chapter as well as tips on how to catch or forage for these items to eat.  This book offers a very different and even radical look at the food we could be eating. Its appeal to readers will be limited however the many colorful photos of grubs, crickets, lionfish and other “edibles” will peak interest. Diagrams, interesting sidebars and data tables are provided throughout the chapters and the text concludes with a glossary, a vast selected bibliography and a lengthy list of suggested books, websites and videos.  Aimed for upper middle school to high school reading levels, this book will make for a very unique pairing with mainstream cookbooks.

Reviewed by Suzanne Dix, Westbrook Middle School, Westbrook