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Robert Downey Jr. and Thomas Kostigen Release Cool Food Book: Call to action for eating right and doing well by the planet
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
In Cool Food, celebrated actor and philanthropist Robert Downey Jr. and New York Times bestselling author Thomas Kostigen team up to discover how we can erase our carbon footprints--one bite at a time. Join Robert and Tom on this fun, exciting, and enlightening adventure and learn how to become part of the Cool Food revolution. The book publishes January 23 and is available for pre-order now wherever books are sold.
NEW YORK, Jan. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Cool Food: Erasing Your Carbon Footprint One Bite at a Time by celebrated actor and philanthropist Robert Downey Jr. and New York Times bestselling author Thomas Kostigen will be published January 23rd by Blackstone Publishing.
Robert Downey Jr. speaks on the impact of his new book, Cool Food, saying: "It's a holistic approach to making the world a whole lot better by simply making more informed decisions about something that each and every one of us does anyway--eat."Cool Food is a guide to help demystify the cool food movement sweeping the world. More than 2 billion 'cool food' meals are already served annually, with huge growth expectations ahead. The book (coolfoodbook.com) will help to reveal why cool food matters to us all.
Cool Food is a new category of food that encompasses those items with lower, or negative carbon footprints. These include certain nuts, fruits and vegetables, ancient grains, seaweeds, and less-processed foods that keep more carbon dioxide in the ground, or in the ocean. Grocery stores, restaurants, fast food establishments, and cafeterias across the country and around the world are increasingly designating menu items "cool food," and are even listing carbon counts like calorie amounts alongside ingredients and meals.
Swapping even one food item to one that's more sustainable, or cool, can produce a massive, positive climate impact, Downey and Kostigen write in Cool Food. Done as a global community, the effect is exponential, they note.
As Earth continues to warm toward unsustainable heat levels, cool food can help to bring temperatures down, and lessen the effects of climate change.
"Cool food is a new category in the food space. It's a different way to eat to save the planet. It isn't a diet or a meal plan. It isn't even so much about food itself. Cool food is really about lifestyle--transformational shifts from little actions, experiences, and different choices. It's a holistic approach to making the world a whole lot better by simply making more informed decisions about something that each and every one of us does anyway--eat," Downey writes in Cool Food: Erasing Your Carbon Footprint One Bite at a Time.
Adds Kostigen, "Think of cool foods as the equivalent of alternative power sources--food's solar or wind power. Our book, Cool Food, is about learning and getting in on the future of food now."
Downey and Kostigen serve up dozens of solutions, recipes, and insights from top chefs, food scientists, farmers, foodies, celebrities, politicians, and more who show and tell how to eat for a better planet.
Switching a burger for salad even once a week can save tons of carbon pollution from entering the atmosphere. If everyone in the US did this, it would be like stopping the pollution from twelve million cars. But it's not just any kind of salad that is most effective. Sea lettuce is at least 20 times more efficient at sweeping CO2 than lettuce grown on land. Choose ocean grown. Or have nuts instead of chips. But not just any nuts. Try nuts from bigger trees, like cashews.
And food itself is only one part of the climate solution. Downey and Kostigen quash myths about food miles (how far food travels from pasture to plate), deliveries, virtual shopping, meal kits, food waste, spoilage, expiration dates, organic labels, and other falsehoods.
Go to http://www.CoolFoodBook.com to learn more.
Robert Downey Jr. is a two-time Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner. He has amassed over 110 acting credits over his illustrious career, ranging from Charlie Chaplin to Sherlock Holmes to Iron Man in the blockbuster franchises Iron Man and The Avengers. In addition to his film and television work, Downey is the founder of FootPrint Coalition (FPC), a non-profit solely focused on the adoption and scaling of sustainable technologies.
Thomas M. Kostigen is an award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author and journalist. He founded the Climate Survivalist column for USA Today and has written for numerous publications, including The Washington Post, National Geographic, Discover, Departures, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal, among others.
About Blackstone Publishing:
Founded in 1987, Blackstone continues to pioneer new and creative ways to bring stories to life. With multiple New York Times Best Sellers, Grammy award-winning audio productions, and three books placed on the New York Times Best Books of the Year list, Blackstone has firmly positioned itself as one of America's fastest growing and respected publishing houses. A true independent, privately owned publisher, with offices on both coasts, Blackstone is home to a vibrant and eclectic community of storytellers and story lovers, offering hundreds of new titles each month to its catalog of 17,000+ books. The authors published are as varied as the books themselves, with works by some of the biggest names in literature including Gabriel García Márquez, Ayn Rand, Ian Fleming, George Orwell, Robert Heinlein, James Clavell, as well as more contemporary authors like Neil deGrasse Tyson, Karin Slaughter, Don Winslow, Robert Downey Jr., Jeneva Rose, Greg Harden, Whoopi Goldberg, Norman Reedus, and many more.
Media Contact
Rebecca Malzahn, Blackstone Publishing, 800-729-2665, rebecca.malzahn@blackstonepublishing.com
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