Hope's Edge : The Next Diet for a Small Planet

Hope's Edgefollows the author of the classic Diet for a Small Planetand her daughter as they travel the world, discovering practical visionaries who are making a difference in world hunger, sometimes one village at a time. Thirty years ago, Frances Moore Lappé started a revolution in the way Americans think about food and hunger. Now Frances and her daughter, Anna, pick up where Diet for a Small Planetleft off. Together they set out on an around-the-world journey to explore the greatest challenges we face in the new millennium. Traveling to Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe, they discovered answers to one of the most urgent issues of our time: whether we can transcend the rampant consumerism and capitalism to find the paths that each of us can follow to heal our lives as well as the planet. Featuring nearly seventy recipes from celebrated vegetarian culinary pioneers-including Alice Waters, Mollie Katzen, Laurel Robertson, Nora Pouillon, and Anna Thomas-Hope's Edgehighlights true trailblazers engaged in social, environmental, and economic transformations.

Frances Moore Lappe is the author of more than a dozen other books. She is the cofounder of two national organizations that focus on food and the roots of democracy. In 1987, she became the fourth American to receive the coveted Right Livelihood Award, known as the "Alternative Nobel." Lappe was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Anna Lappe voices the perspectives of her generation with a depth of experience from having lived and worked abroad, in South Africa, England, and France. She is a graduate of Brown and holds an MA from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Anna is cofounder, with her mother, of the Small Planet Fund