Just in time for our holiday shopping and meal prep, the Kitchen Connection
Alliance and the UN Food and Agriculture
Organization have released a new
cookbook that centers on meals that
benefit both human and environmental health.
Launched last week at
COP27,
The Cookbook in Support of the United Nations: For People and Planet — dubbed
a “global collection for global connection” — features recipes from a diverse
roster of 75 lay and professional cooks, farmers, activists and more from 75
different regions. Chefs Massimo Bottura, Grace Ramirez, Virgilio
Martinez, Kimbal Musk, Andrew Zimmern, Sean Sherman and José
Andrés are among the book’s contributors.
“As a chef that feeds the few, for the last 30 years I’ve been very blessed also
to be part of trying to feed the many,” Andrés said in a video
message. “Through my work, I began
learning how to help people get access to delicious and nutritious food during
emergencies … The key is to try to stop these emergencies
before they happen.
“It is an honor to work with Kitchen Connection and their work to educate and
advocate for better food systems,” he continued. “By educating ourselves and
each other on how to eat for better human and planetary health, we can limit the
number of hungry people by preventing natural disasters before they happen. The
Cookbook is a wonderful example of that — with 75 fellow activists, indigenous
peoples, farmers and chefs from around the world who have signed on to improve
our food system. I look forward to bringing this cookbook to life with an
upcoming production with Jose Andrés
Media that sheds
light on some of the challenges and opportunities we have to support the planet
through our food choices.”
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The nonprofit Kitchen Connection Alliance is on a
mission to empower global citizens
with the knowledge to contribute to a better food system. It focuses on engaging
youth as protagonists rather than victims of the food system through online and
in-person advocacy, events and educational material that is meant to be fun. The
Kitchen Connection Alliance is a revolutionary education hub and global youth
organization dedicated to empowering global citizens with knowledge to
contribute to a better food environment by making advocacy accessible,
actionable, and engaging for a new generation of food systems champions.
“It was a wonderful, at times challenging, and often enlightening experience to
merge local and global perspectives to create this multifaceted project,”
Kitchen Connection Alliance founder and Director Earlene
Cruz told Food
Tank.
“Ultimately, to have advocates, farmers, indigenous peoples, chefs, UN and non
UN-partners all coming together around this issue highlights the importance that
it has for humanity at large.”
The cookbook invites anyone with basic kitchen tools or minimal cooking
experience to make more sustainable food choices. The five recipe sections cover
food systems, biodiversity, sustainable consumption, food and climate change,
and food waste; the book also shares each dish’s carbon footprint, derived by
calculating the sum of carbon emissions associated with each ingredient. Cruz
told Food Tank she hopes that the book will help both aspiring and more
experienced home cooks plan and prepare food with the health of the planet in
mind — with a new lens on supporting biodiversity, reducing food waste and
mitigating climate change.
Proceeds from sales of the book benefit the development of a children’s version
of the book and support the UN Bookstore and projects with indigenous
communities. Along with other cookbooks such as Decolonize Your Diet
and The No-Waste Vegetable Cookbook,
The Cookbook in Support of the United Nations can help imbue home cooks with a
more conscious, respectful, sustainable approach to our meals — during the
holidays and year-round.
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Published Nov 22, 2022 1pm EST / 10am PST / 6pm GMT / 7pm CET