Newsworthies
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January/February 1977
By Carla Emery
(The new 7th Edition of Carla'sOld Fashioned Recipe Book—a 900-page treasury of recipes, tips, and country lore—is available for $15, plus $2.00 postage/handling, from Carla Emery, Kendrick Idaho 83537.—THE EDITORS.)
FRANCES SHERIDAN GOULART
Permanent-pressed doggie burgers and canned horsemeat may not be on the way out yet .. . but they would be if FRANCES SHERIDAN GOULART—health food expert and wife of science fiction writer Ron Goulart—had anything to say about it.
The 85-pound Wilton, Connecticut cookbook author claims that dogs and cats—like their human guardians—regularly consume 10 to 12% more protein than their bodies can efficiently utilize ... to say nothing of the artificial food colorings and preservatives in pet chows. Which is why Ms. Goulart has written Bone Appetit:. Natural Fools for Pets ($2.50 from Pacific Search, 715 Harrison St., Seattle, Wash. 981091.
According to author/lecturer/distance-runner Goulart—whose previous book credits include Macmillan's . TheEcological Eclair and Chathams Bum Steers —there's already considerable nationwide interest in natural foods for pets. "When I gave a workshop on cooking for one's pet at a natural foods convention," she says, "I had a full house!"
DR. WES JACKSON
Some "authorities" like to expound at length an environmental problems with out changing their own lifestyles at all . . . while other folks change their ways of living without writing or talking about the switch.
Somewhere between these two extremes is WES JACKSON, the soft-spoken geneticist-author of Man and the Environment (Win. C. Brown Co., 1971), who—last summer—abandoned his job as professor of environmental studies at the California State University :in Sacramento to start his own school on a 28-acre farm near Salina, Kansas.
Wes's "school" is called The Land Institute, and is—in his own words—devoted to "a search for alternatives: in agriculture, shelter, energy, and waste disposal".
