Contributors
Anna Lappé
Editor and Recipe Section Coordination
Anna Lappé is Frances’s daughter and has been working with her mom since she started copy editing her manuscripts when she was in middle school. When Anna was the same age Frances was when she wrote Diet for a Small Planet, Anna co-authored with her mother, Hope’s Edge, which chronicled courageous social movements and civil society organizations addressing the root causes of hunger from the foothills of the Himalayas to central Brazil. Since then, Anna has been dedicated to advocating for sustainability and justice along the food chain—as an author, activist, and advisor to funders working for food system transformation. In addition to Hope’s Edge, Anna has contributed to thirteen books and co-authored or authored two others, most recently Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It. A James Beard Foundation Leadership Awardee, Anna is the founder or co-founder of three national organizations, including Real Food Media. For twenty years she has managed the Small Planet Fund and, since 2016, developed and leads the Food Sovereignty Fund of the Panta Rhea Foundation.
Learn More: Real Food Media
Follow Anna on Twitter: @annalappe
Wendy Lopez
Recipe Developer
Wendy Lopez is a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist, recipe developer, and co-founder of Food Heaven, an online platform that provides resources on cooking, intuitive eating, and body respect. She is the co-author of the 28-Day Plant-Powered Health Reboot cookbook and is the co-host of the Food Heaven Podcast. She also has a food and nutrition column in SELF magazine, where she explores the intersection of food, class, race, and culture.
Learn more: Food Heaven Made Easy
Follow Wendy on Twitter: @FoodHeavenShow
Follow Wendy on Instagram: @foodheaven
Paige Green
Cover Photography
Paige Green was raised in South Carolina, Ireland, Korea and Hong Kong by Midwestern parents, and spent her childhood drawing and dreaming about becoming the next Jane Goodall until falling in love with photography in college. She has been photographing and living in California ever since. A lover of natural light, medium format film, and capturing candid moments, Paige enjoys photographing her family and documenting communities.
Learn more: www.paigegreenphotography.com
Follow Paige on Instagram: @paigegreenphoto
Aimée Mazara
Illustrator
Aimée Mazara is an illustrator from Dominican Republic, focusing on independent graphic journalism. Her work is inspired by childhood nostalgia, traditional culture, and biodiversity—showcasing stories of the communities and the experiences she surrounds herself, using a range of mediums and styles to represent its vibrancy.
Learn more: www.aimeemazara.com
Follow Aimée on Instagram: @aimeemazara
Contributing Chefs
Chef José Andrés
Chef José Andrés is one of the world’s most renowned chefs and restaurateurs—often credited with introducing tapas to American eaters—and currently his ThinkFoodGroup comprises 28 acclaimed restaurants around the world. In 2010, José began his efforts to use food as a powerful agent of positive change and founded World Central Kitchen, which has since earned him the title of “Humanitarian of the Year” from the James Beard Foundation and he has twice been named to Time’s “100 Most Influential People” list.
Learn More: http://www.joseandres.com/
Follow José on Twitter: @chefjoseandres
Follow José on Instagram: @chefjoseandres
Mark Bittman
Mark Bittman is the author of more than twenty acclaimed books, including the How to Cook Everything series. He wrote for the New York Times for more than two decades, and became the country’s first food-focused Op-Ed columnist for a major news publication. His most recent book is Animal Vegetable Junk.
Learn More: https://www.markbittman.com/
Follow Mark on Twitter: @bittman
Follow Mark on Instagram: @markbittman
Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel
Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel are Ethnic Studies professors and authors of Decolonize Your Diet: Plant-Based Mexican-American Recipes for Health and Healing. They live in Oakland, California where they tend a backyard food garden.
Learn More: https://www.akpress.org/decolonizeyourdiet.html
Follow Luz on Twitter: @LuzCalvo
Follow Luz on Instagram: @jardinerx
Brooks Headley
Brooks Headley is the owner/operator of Superiority Burger in Manhattan's East Village. It's a vegetarian restaurant that skews vegan at times. Brooks is also the author of two cookbooks, Fancy Desserts and Superiority Burger Cookbook.
Learn More: https://www.superiorityburger.com/
Follow Superiority Burger on Twitter: @superiorityburg
Follow Superiority Burger on Instagram: @superiorityburger
Mollie Katzen
Mollie Katzen is best known as the author of the vegetarian classics, Moosewood Cookbook and Enchanted Broccoli Forest. She was influenced and inspired by Frances Moore Lappé's original publication of Diet for a Small Planet (which preceded the first publication of Moosewood by several years) and is delighted to be part of this 50-year edition.
Learn More: https://molliekatzen.com/
Follow Molly on Twitter: @MollieKatzen
Alicia Kennedy
Alicia Kennedy is a food culture, politics, and media writer based in Puerto Rico who is currently writing a book on ethical eating. She produces a weekly newsletter on food culture, justice, and media called "From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy" which has been mentioned by the New York Times, GQ, The San Francisco Chronicle, and more. Her writing has been featured in Time, The Guardian, Eater, and others.
Learn More: https://alicia-kennedy.com/
Follow Alicia on Twitter: @aliciakennedy
Follow Alicia on Instagram: @aliciadkennedy
Yasmin Khan
Yasmin Khan is an author and broadcaster who is passionate about sharing people's stories through food. Her critically acclaimed cookery books, The Saffron Tales and Zaitoun, chronicle her culinary adventures through Iran and Palestine, sharing recipes and stories that celebrate beauty and the power of the human spirit in regions more commonly associated with conflict. Her third book, Ripe Figs, explores the food of the Eastern Mediterranean. Before working in food, Yasmin was a human rights campaigner for a decade with a special focus on the Middle East.
Learn More: http://yasminkhanstories.com/
Follow Yasmin on Twitter: @yasmin_khan
Follow Yasmin on Instagram: @yasminkhanstories
Padma Lakshmi
Padma Lakshmi is an internationally renowned food expert, model, actress, and best-selling author. She serves as host and executive producer of Bravo’s Emmy-winning series Top Chef and Hulu’s Taste the Nation. Her memoir, Love, Loss and What We Ate, was published in 2016 and her cookbooks include, Easy Exotic and Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet. Lakshmi is also an avid activist for immigrants’ rights and women’s reproductive rights, serving as an artist ambassador for the ACLU and as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Development Program.
Learn More: http://padmalakshmi.com/
Follow Padma on Twitter: @PadmaLakshmi
Follow Padma on Instagram: @padmalakshmi
Anthony Myint
Anthony Myint is a chef and climate activist who is the co-founder of Mission Chinese Food and trailblazer of the pop-up genre. His non-profit, Zero Foodprint leads a public-private collaboration with California State agencies to scale agricultural climate solutions rooted in healthy soil. ZFP has been awarded the 2020 James Beard Award for Humanitarian of the Year.
Learn More: https://www.zerofoodprint.org/people
Follow Anthony's work on Twitter: @zerofoodprint
Follow Anthony work on Instagram: @zerofoodprint
Louisa Shafia
Louisa Shafia is the author of the cookbook The New Persian Kitchen. She is an authority on Iranian food, and partners with restaurants around the country to host Persian dinners. Her food writing for a variety of publications focuses on immigrant cooking traditions.
Learn More: https://louisashafia.com/
Follow Louisa on Twitter: @lucidfood
Follow Louisa on Instagram: @louisashafia
Oglala Lakota Chef Sean Sherman
Oglala Lakota Chef Sean Sherman, founder of The Sioux Chef, is decolonizing our food system. From growing up on Pine Ridge to an epiphany on a beach in Mexico, Chef Sean Sherman shares his journey of discovering, reviving and reimagining Native cuisine.
Learn More: https://linktr.ee/Siouxchef
Follow Sean on Twitter: @Chef_Sean
Follow Sean on Instagram: @the_sioux_chef
Aileen Suzara
Aileen Suzara is a cook, educator, and food justice advocate who uplifts the role of culturally rooted foods as medicine. She launched the food project Sariwa ("Fresh" in Filipino) to reclaim her community's healing wisdom. As part of this journey, she is honored to grow with Sama Sama Cooperative, Asian Farmers Alliance, and as a Castanea Fellow.
Learn More: https://sariwakitchen.com/about
Follow Aileen on Twitter: @aileensuzara
Follow Aileen on Instagram: @sariwakitchen
Bryant Terry
Bryant Terry is a James Beard Award-winning chef, educator, and author renowned for his activism to create a healthy, just, and sustainable food system. Since 2015 he has been the Chef-in-Residence at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco where he creates public programming that celebrates the intersection of food, farming, health, activism, art, culture, and the African Diaspora. Bryant’s sixth book, Black Food, will be published in the fall of 2021.
Learn More: https://www.bryant-terry.com/
Follow Bryant on Twitter: @bryantterry
Follow Bryant on Instagram: @bryantterry
Alice Waters
Alice Waters is a chef, food activist, and owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley, California, which first opened its doors the same year Diet for a Small Planet was published, 1971. Alice has been a champion of local sustainable agriculture ever since. In 1995 she founded the Edible Schoolyard Project, which advocates for a free regenerative school lunch for all children and a sustainable food curriculum in every public school. She is the author of sixteen books including her critically acclaimed memoir, Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook.
Learn More :
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/75571/alice-waters/
Follow Alice on Twitter: @AliceWaters
Follow Alice on Instagram: @alicelouisewaters