Page 16 RAIN December 1977 ( FOOD ) Miso Production ( The Book of Miso: Volume II), by William Shurtleff and Akiko Aoyagi, 1977, $7.95 from: New Age Foods Study Center P.O. Box 234 . Lafayette, CA 94549 The people who put together the Book of Miso.and the Book of Tofu . have now come up with another addition to help us eat well. This one is geared to getting some appropriate small . cottage industries going in communities- a fine handbook. - LdeM Bean Cuisine, Beverly White, 1977, $7.95 from: Beacon Press 2 5 Beacon St. Boston, MA 02108 The Complete Book ofHigh Protein Baking, Martha Ellen Katz, 1975, $1.95 frnm: Ballantine Books 201 E. 50th St: New York, NY 10022 The Farm Vegetarian Cookbook, Louise Dotzler, ed., $1.95 from: The Book Publishing Company The Farm Summertown, TN 38483 Here are three good, tasty books for you eating high and lightly fans. The bean book centers. on legume-based di~hes from different cultures- Haiti, Cuba, India, Mexico, Italy and Iran, to name a few. Nothing better than a bean curry stew on a cold winter night. If you match it with a grain you'll have a balanced, easily digestible protein. The baking book takes it one step further by telling you how to mix grains, beans and nuts in one muffin pan for complete proteins. The people at The Farm don't eat fish, fowl, meat, cheese, milk or eggs, so t~eir recipes are more austere (I mean that in the best sense). Together the~e bo.oks are another step along the way of eating low on the food chain and "Living high on the bean." - LdeM Old Fashioned Recipe Book, Carla Emry, 1977, $8.95 from: Bantam Books 666 Fifth Ave. Ne·w York, NY 10019 This book has an amazing history. lt first came out in early 1974 as a mimeographed hgw-to on country livingeverything from smoking meat to making quilts. Lots of recipes too. It sold •out, as did ~ubsequent editions-I forget • how many thousands of1copies. Last year Bantam paid C;ula lots of money to do this edition. It feels good-still the same rough, colored paper, but typeset now and with a lot of fun illustrations. -LdeM • (Gooo THINGS) Exploratorium Cookbook, $50 from: The Exploratorium 3601 Lyort Street San Francisco, CA 94123 You've probably been to as many dreary science museums as we havewith their technoid design and room •after room filled with exhibits "donated" by power companies and big . industry, which have less to do with science than wit-h propaganda supporting their activities. There is hope, however, if you've ever been to San Francis~o and wandered into the old Palace o_f Fine Arts and discovered yourself in the Exploratorium. It's like stepping into into a magic land where you can vanish for hours, absorbed in a single exhibit thought up by gnomes as much for your delight and.play as for all you do learn. Well, they've put together a cookbook of 80 of their exhibits- peopletestedwith plans:and descriptions on how to construct them, what might improve on their design, what skills arc necessary to build them, how people have rea~t~d to them. An incredibly. valuable resource for any museum, and many of the ex-- hibits can be modified for classroom o·r oth~r use. It's really more of a carnival than a museum: If you want to get a feeling for their.exciting exhibits without the construction information, $2 will get you Exploratorium: Light Sight Sound Hearing-a delightful booklet explaining one section ofthe exhibits. -TB C,o1!'plete Guide to· Sewi~g., ed. by Virgm1a·Colton, 1976, $14.00 from: • Readers Digest Association, Inc. Pleasantville, NY 10570 T~_is is the best, most complete sewing guide I've ever seen or used. It is wellorganized with an index as well as a cross-reference system. In addition to the clear, simple expla'nations, there are extrqnely fine illustrations that do so much in conveying an understanding of the process described. It deals with such sewing fundamentals as patterns, fitting and construction basics as well as tailoring and special sewing situations. Highly recommended for those people who are jus.t learning to sew as well as a good reference for-experienced sewers. - J M Solid Waste Resource Guide, August 1977, price unknown, from the Environmental Action Foundation 724 Dupont Circle Bldg. Washington, DC 20036 This handy l'ittle guide lists books, pamphlets and educational tools such as movies and video tapes for people working to bring about appropriate ways of dealing with solid waste as a valuable resource. Most ofthe materials are recent and include the best in the field of government and private materials. In fact, this outdates our Solid Waste Sourcelist by far. -LdeM The Third Annual California Recycling Conference was just held a couple of weeks ago at Yosemite, but if.you want ,to read the p'roceedings of last year's conference (1976), send $7 to the California Resource Recovery Association, P.O. Box 1263, Pacific.: Palisades, CA 90272. 213/454-3845. •
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