In:

• Cast iron cookware, regular and enamel coated
• Made in USA (preferably local)
• Induction cooking, to keep kitchens cool
• Re-usable shopping bags
• Stovetop cooking, all year round
• Conscious consumerism: voting with your dollar
• Savory desserts
• More meatless meals, especially with whole grains
• Dark chocolate, organic and fair trade, 70% cacao
• Certified: Organic, Fair Trade, and domestic Fair Trade
• Ethical eating, humanely raised animals
• Kinder, gentler TV chefs with world vision
• Kitchen sections at second-hand stores
• Peace

Out:

• Inhumanely raised livestock and poultry
• Inhuman, self-centered TV chefs with no vision
• Milk chocolate
• Faux organics and exploited workers
• Made in China, including questionable “organics”
• Double wall ovens, which stress cooling systems
• Beefy meals (though grass-fed beats conventional)
• Plastic and paper
• Oven cooking in warm weather
• Supporting the bad guys
• Corn syrup sweets
• Teflon and nonstick-surface cookware
• Salad shooters and one-trick-pony appliances
• War

…from Kate’s Global Kitchen