Skinny Bitch In the Kitch Kick-Ass Recipes for Hungry Girls Who Want to Stop Cooking Crap (and Start Looking Hot!) by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin is the second caustic offering from model/model agent turned authors Rory Freedman and Kim Barnounin. Their first novel — Skinny Bitch — opened up a feminist can of whupass that drove their no-nonsense exposé of the food industry to the top of the New York Times Bestseller List. Skinny Bitch In the Kitch doesn’t quite live up to the hype of their first book, but it does pack in a lot of great recipes – more than 75 to be precise.
Here’s the basic premise of Skinny Bitch In the Kitch - meat is bad, nothing more than rotting carcass; milk is gross and simple carbs suck and should always be avoided, if you want to look hot you just need to buy this book and follow their dietary options. Seems simple, right? Well, as we all know, nothing ever really is.
The two Skinny Bitch authors have done a lot to raise awareness about the ugly side of the food industry and have advocated, perhaps indirectly, to alleviate a lot of animal cruelty through reducing the consumption of factory farming methods. Aside from reducing animal cruelty, cutting back on meat consumption minimizes greenhouse gas emissions from food production. Bravo for these contributions.
Skinny Bitch In the Kitch has some good recipes – crab cakes, falafel, spicy Thai dishes, carrot cakes, shortbread cookies and pretty much everything else a female vegetarian would want to eat (including a PMS snack food section). However, where the book falls a “bitch” short is in the scope of their self-proclaimed pro-health stance. There is no mention of the health and environmental impacts of soy (many of the recipes are soy based) — much of the soy crop is genetically modified and yes, the rainforest is being destroyed to grow soy. Skinny Bitch also fails to broach another aspect of healthy eating —the need to consume organic food to lessen pesticide ingestion.
If you are looking for a lightweight, funny recipe book, that doesn’t include meat, dairy or simple carbs, geared towards a youngish American palate – this is the book for you.
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Publisher: Running Press
192 Pages
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