Cook delicious summer meals outdoors using only the energy of sunshine.
Why heat up your kitchen by turning on the stove when it's hot outside?
Cooking outdoors with sunshine is easy, safe, and free, and
it doesn’t heat up your kitchen (or the planet). It's like having an
unplugged version of your slow cooker in the backyard.
"Cooking with fire is primal—even when the fire is 93 million miles away. This book will make you a practitioner of both ancient wisdom and avant-garde skill. Bon appetit!"
—Bill McKibben
Founder of 350.0rg and Third Act, and bestselling author of The End of Nature
Why cook with sunshine?
The food is flavorful.
The fuel is free.
The emissions are zero.
Prep and cleanup are easy.
Dishes don't need tending and never burn.
Your kitchen stays cool.
“The CooKit solved one issue for me this week: how to cook during
a heatwave without heating up the house. The last few days, I’ve
roasted vegetables and baked cakes in my backyard. Sure, each dish
took twice as long as usual, but they required no more attention
than adjusting the oven every so often to follow the sun.”
—Anne Ewbank in Gastro Obscura
Who is SLOW COOK SOLAR for?
People who love to
cook outdoors.
With a solar oven next to your grill, you can cook potatoes for Sour Cream Dill Potato Salad and bake a dessert of Summer Fruit Crumble without having to turn on the indoor oven.
Busy moms who love
their Crock-Pots.
Put polenta in at the start of your active day and take it out fully cooked for an easy dinner of Parmesan Spinach Polenta Bowls, or try a simple Crustless Crab Quiche.
Gardeners who know that "growing your own food is like printing your own money," like Gangsta Gardener Ron Finley says.
Solar cooking fresh veggies for dishes like Green Bean Pesto and Beet and Cucumber Soup is the most flavorful way.
Everyone who takes
climate change seriously.
Eating a diet of plant-rich foods and cooking it with sunshine is a delicious way to reduce your carbon footprint.
“Thanks so much to Lorraine Anderson for this beautiful,
colorful, informative, accessible, and engaging book.
She expertly sets anyone up to be successful at solar cooking.”
—Caitlyn Hughes, Executive Director, Solar Cookers International
What can you cook with sunshine?
Anything you can cook in a slow cooker—and more.
Fruits, vegetables, grains and pasta, legumes, egg-and-cheese dishes,
poultry, meat, seafood, nuts and seeds, bread.
