A Dozen Essential Takeaways From My ‘How to Eat Now’ Audiocourse

With great advice from a favorite collaborator

I pulled out some of my favorite tips and takeaways (with quotes) from the audiocourse I just launched on Knowable, called How To Eat Now. Most of these things are so ingrained in my day-to-day cooking, shopping, and eating that I hardly even think about them anymore. Like anything, it takes some time to make them habits, but probably less than you’d think. Toward the bottom, there are also a few tips from the wonderful Holly Haines, — including her “Thanksgiving tray” revelation, which, honestly, blew my mind. I hope you find this useful.

Shop local — or, how to work within our broken food system.

What can you do to get good food into the house when the system is conspiring against you doing that? It depends on how much time and money you have — if you have plenty of both, you can do an awesome job of this. If you’re limited in both, then it becomes trickier. But anything you can do to shorten that supply chain is positive.

Avoid fake meat.

If you want to eat less meat, eat more vegetables, eat more legumes, eat more whole grains. Don’t eat more processed food, which is what the substitution of Impossible…