Gnocchi with Sausage and Peas
In honor of Tina Turner, who sadly just died, let us consider the dystopian world of Mad Max for a moment. The plot of the films is fiction, obviously, but grim things can and do happen in real life when there are shortages of resources. The American West is having a scary, long-term water crisis that could be apocalyptic down the line. As the New York Times noted in a terrific infographic , a huge portion of the dwindling available water from the Colorado River is used to grow feed for the livestock that give us meat and dairy. If people stopped farming animals--even if they used the same land to grow plants to feed humans--the need for water would be far less. Somehow the Times can do great reporting on things like the West's water shortage and yet still promote a ton of recipes with meat, an issue that I have raised with the food editor in the past . So I vegetarianize bussin recipes like " Crisp Gnocchi With Sausage and Peas " (NYT Cooking; you should be able to ac...