Bøger af Jo Barrett

Discover how changing the way you cook and eat can make a difference to the world around us with Sustain: Thirty Dishes That Could Save The Planet. Featuring 80 recipes across 30 meals, this inspiring, beautifully photographed cookbook shows how mastering simple "skill builders" such as fermenting, preserving, brining and pickling can lead to a more sustainable kitchen. Cooking simple dishes such as glazed mushroom skewers, stuffed potato cakes, red pepper pasta and venison pie will not only taste delicious but have a long-lasting impact for future generations. Learn about alternative ingredients such as tigernuts - nut-, gluten- and dairy-free tubers high in protein and fiber - which can be transformed into a showstopping, four ingredient cake with seasonal fruit. Written by chef and sustainability champion Jo Barrett, from the team who created the ground-breaking eco-house FutureFoodSystem, Sustain provides innovative, achievable solutions to empower readers to be creative with their cooking, connect with their food system, and help save the planet.

The Men's Guide to the Women's Bathroom strives to answer life's most imponderable question: What Do Women Really Do in the Bathroom? When the witty and urbane Claire St. John leaves New York City and returns to Austin, Texas, she realizes that all of the good advice she has ever received has been from strangers in the women's bathroom. If only she'd listened before she'd married the wrong man and wound up on the losing end of a divorce. Swearing off men, Claire decides to take a big chance?she will quit her life as a lawyer and write the ultimate self-help book?a book detailing exactly what goes on in that most sacred feminine temple: the women's bathroom.But will the new how-to guru ever learn to take her own advice? While she's discovering the truth behind the bathroom door, re-assimilating to Texas culture by eating "nuclear" jalapeño carrots, speeding down highways through the famed Texas hill country, and even joining an ill-fated booze cruise, Claire St. John is fighting her feelings for Jake Armstrong, a dashing organic food entrepreneur who threatens to throw off the balance of her new life. Will she be able to handle the pressure or will she watch her love life get flushed away?