Food Matters by Mark Bittman

Eric Rochow: Hey, everyone. I'm Eric Rochow, the host of gardenfork and Realworldgreen. This is my first video book review. Let's just will be, so I'm going to choose to set in Mark Bittman's Food Matters and I really, really like this book and I wanted to talk about it and I talk better than I write, so I start to make a video review. So, here we go. Long story short, I read Mark's book and this is kind of what it differ to me. I went from having this for breakfast, which is an everything bad go with cream cheese to having this for breakfast, which is a whole weak baggle with peanut butter or better yet something like this for breakfast, which is some raisins that you have with yogurt. So there you go. There is a lot of green writing out there and my part of think what I think about real green is practical green applying thing that are practical to be in green. Hey! Everyone I'm Eric Rochow and this real world green. Today, here is our practical green tip and that is try eating less meat. There you go, eat more of this pretty simple right. Not this kind of crunchy granola doomy like thing going on. The first part of Mark's book talks about this, he basically listed out in short order or some of the statistics that are how we are causing problems in the world, and then he offer some solutions. What I like about his solution is it's basically a health solution and it's also a green solution. And it's kind of some dump by saying, here is a way that you can eat healthier and also save money, reduce your incidence of chronic diseases and be green at all the same time. It's the beauty is it's simplicity and it's not some rigid diet thing, and you know he is kind of pretty late bad guy and he had some health issues that came upon him kind of like me, like I put that on quiet a bit a light weight lately and things like that he had apnea and he had high cholesterol and he started eating better and those things what's were either reduced or they run away. Also, he realized that by eating better, you're also being greener and here is how. The United States has this huge thing about eating a lot of meat and if we reduce our meat consumption and focused more in vegetables it would be healthier and would also be greener. I'm not saying be a macro biotic or vegan or anything like that, but truth be told it takes less water and less energy to create a pound of vegetables that it does to create a pound of meat and I know there is a lot of discussion about this is to what the actual number is I don't know what the actual number is, I do know it takes less water and energy to create vegetables that it does to create beef or pork or chicken for that matter. What I like about Mark's book is that he also talks about basically he is fairly strict about how eats for breakfast and lunch I think he calls it from dawn to dusk. And then at dinner he let's himself go. So, you know you can eat a nice whole grain oak meal or something in the morning and you could have a light salad and fruit, nuts and stuff for lunch, and then for dinner, if you had a cheese bugger just have a cheese burger. So, what I also like is in the fact, the back half of book is recipes, I mean he is a recipe guy so you would expect that, but instead of just breaching the elbow what you should do, he actually has you know practical recipes. He got chicken piece two with those chicken by the way I made this chick pie buggers the other day, we made a quick video about that. Female Speaker: Yeah, it's nice. Eric Rochow: Nice. Female Speaker: That's a -- Eric Rochow: You don't have to -- it's not some rigid thing where you had to have eight ounces of chicken breast with six ounces of brown rice, it's like a lifestyle kind of choice but it's you're making some choices to go a little healthier, but it's not just rigid thing because I don't really think diets work. I think if you kind of relearn how to eat and learn about what's good for you, it's a lot better, you know like about a way. I got to have some peanut butter, so good. There you go, I mean that's the air rambling version of why he likes Mark Bittman's food matters book. And we're going to give away this copy of Mark Bittman's book on the site. So, if you come to our site gree-house.tv and click on the link for food matters give away, we have all the instructions there, it's really simple. But I appreciate them setting you the book. Thank you again. Thank you Mark for hooking me up with the lectures, and you know check out this book just when you're going to have that muffin think about maybe having something else, something a little whole grain maybe some oat meal, if you're on the go, maybe it's some trail mix or something just -- it really makes sense to me and I've already -- I've already seen a difference for it. So, this is my review, tell me what you think. Come to our site, login, and leave some comments.