One for all
MY BOOKS HAVE previously been gentle in their approach to putting plants at the centre of your tables. And while food and cooking, for me, are absolutely about the joy and the connection and beauty of sharing a meal, I feel now it’s time to stress the changes we need to make. I want to make it clear that how we eat can actually help to shift the world we live in.
Our food system has the single biggest impact on the climate. It affects every inch of our planet and every creature on it. If we want to help slow, and one day (hopefully) begin to reverse, climate change, it is widely agreed that the most powerful thing we can do is eat fewer animals and more plants.
The food we eat quite literally builds and fuels the bodies which we walk around in every day. The food and farming systems we support likewise determine the kind of world we live in. Food is the one thing we ALL have in common, that we all engage in three times a day. It’s an important thing to focus on, inform ourselves about and celebrate.
This is an edited extract from One Pot, Pan, Planet by Anna Jones (Harper Collins, $49.99). Photographers: © Issy Croker and Matt Russell
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