Carol J. Adams - Protest Kitchen

PRAISE FOR PROTEST KITCHEN

Protest Kitchen exposes the systemic abuses that result from standard industrialized eating patterns and provides actionable advice for those who empathize with the exploited. This powerful book illustrates how we can resist oppression and create a more just and compassionate world through conscientious food choices.

Gene Baur, president and cofounder of Farm Sanctuary,
author of Living the Farm Sanctuary Life

In Protest Kitchen, Carol J. Adams and Virginia Messina make it very clear how what happens in kitchens, backyards, and other places where food is prepared and consumed has enormous impacts that go way beyond the walls of slaughterhouses, restaurants, and homes. Choosing a plant-based diet is, indeed, a significant form of protest and resistance against a violent, destructive, and discriminatory status quo, and the authors clearly show how personal choices can empower all individuals and make enormous differences not only for the animals and people involved but also for society as a whole.

Marc Bekoff, author of The Animals' Agenda: Freedom, Compassion, and
Coexistence in the Human Age
and Canine Confidential: Why Dogs Do What They Do

Protest Kitchen's authors draw on their deep expertise in clinical nutrition and social justice to provide a deeply insightful look at how our food choices can unintentionally support racism, sexism, environmental damage, and other social injustices. Dozens of delicious recipes make it easy to try meals with a lower injustice footprintmy favorites are the imPeach Crumble and the Trumped-Up Cutlets. This wonderful, game-changing book is a must-read for anyone interested in eating mindfully and avoiding collateral damage to society's disenfranchised and marginalized.

David Robinson Simon, author of Meatonomics

The personal is politicaland delicious! Protest Kitchen shows you how to change the world... one kitchen at a time. When eating is a form of protest, every meal becomes an act of resistance, an opportunity for healing, hopeand Collard Greens with Black-Eyed Peas! Adams and Messina make it fun to align your kitchen with your politics. Go vegan for a day, then a week, then a lifetime.

Jayne Loader, filmmaker, The Atomic Caf

Protest Kitchen is a welcome challenge to the world's most ignored social justice spaceour own kitchens. Adams and Messina arm hungry advocates with the knowledge needed to bring trips to the grocery store into line with their values, all while providing practical, mouth-watering cuisine to fuel bodies and souls. This delicious page-turner exists in a category of its own. Do yourself a favor and invite Protest Kitchen into yours!

Chris Sosa, senior editor, AlterNet

Protest Kitchen unpacks the sordid truths associated with our current food system. With action steps and easy and delicious recipes, this book is much more than a cookbook. It will open your mind to how all forms of activism are connected to restructuring food culture.

David Carter, food justice activist, former NFL player

Protest Kitchen comes at a time when most vegan cookbooks choose to be apoliticalchoose not to ask their audience how either collusion with, or resistance against, an oppressive system goes beyond mere taste and desires and begins in the kitchen. Connecting powerful narratives with creative recipes, this book is a much-needed gem for those ready to protest [and cook] against injustices such as speciesism, environmental racism, and misogyny. The personal [palate] is political!

Dr. A. Breeze Harper, editor of Sistah Vegan

This edition first published in 2018 by Conari Press, an imprint of
Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC
With offices at:

65 Parker Street, Suite 7
Newburyport, MA 01950
www.redwheelweiser.com

Copyright 2018 by Carol J. Adams and Virginia Messina
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by
any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage
and retrieval system, without permission in writing from Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC.
Reviewers may quote brief passages.

The Groovin' Reuben recipe on was reproduced from Never Too Late to Go Vegan
by Carol J. Adams, Patti Breitman, and Virginia Messina. Copyright 2014, Sharon Palmer.
Reprinted by permission of the publisher, The Experiment, LLC.

ISBN: 978-1-57324-743-6
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Adams, Carol J., author. I Messina, Virginia, author.

Title: Protest kitchen : fight injustice, save the planet, and fuel your
resistance one meal at a time / Carol J. Adams and Virginia Messina.
Description: Newburyport, MA : Conari Press, 2018. I Includes bibliographical
references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018018465 I ISBN 9781573247436 (hardback)

Subjects: LCSH: Vegan cooking. I Food preferences--Environmental aspects. I
Sustainable living. I Environmental protection--Citizen participation. I
Green products. I BISAC: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food. I HEALTH &
FITNESS / Diets. I LCGFT: Cookbooks.

Classification: LCC TX837 .A2925 2018 I DDC 641.5/636--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018018465

Book design by Kathryn Sky-Peck

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Muriel Kathryn Stang Adams (1914-2009)
and Willie Schrenk Kisch (1923-2002)

and to all who have nurtured children of the resistance