Book Nook: 'True Food' - 8 simple, healthy steps

TRUE FOOD: 8 Simple Steps to a Healthier You, by Annie B. Bond, Melissa Breyer and Wendy Gordon (National Geographic, $26).

"Cultivate the connection between plate and planet," Alice Waters, famed chef and Slow Food pioneer says in a cover blurb. If you're wondering how, look inside.

A house built "out of true" - not in correct alignment - will not stand. And "most of us have been eating a diet that is wildly out of true compared to what our bodies need, and equally out of true considering what is best for the health of the planet," write the co-authors, green gurus themselves.

THE SCOOP They show how to find and prepare local, fresh, organic foods - while saving energy.

THE BOTTOM LINE If you can't buy local food, they say, buy organic. If you can't, buy from a family farm. If you can't, buy from a local business. And, if, finally, you can't, then buy for terroir - "the taste of the earth" - say, Brie from France.