Book Report: The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone

Subtitled "A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet," Silverstone's first foray into writing a book is a home run.Filled with delicious, macrobiotic inspired recipes and tantalizing pictures, The Kind Diet offers good information on how what you eat affects the rest of the world. From journaling exercises, meditation recommendations, information about global warming and the environmental impact of the Standard American Diet, Alicia provides convincing arguments for how a plant-based diet is the ultimate ecological choice for eating.The recipes are lovely and delicious. Everything from chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cups, egg-less salad sandwiches, polenta casserole, to udon dishes, hijiki-tofu croquettes and more old-school macrobiotic dishes like sea vegetables and pressed salads are here for the eating.I highly recommend this book for anyone beginning a diet transformation. It's also a nice way to weave together your political eco-consciousness and your foodie sensibilities.Happy reading!Alexandra