Odd Bits

You can buy organic, grass-fed, conscientiously grown meat all you want, but if you're only eating one part of that chicken, cow, or hog, you're wasting a lot of usable protein — and that's totally un-green of you. Odd Bits: How to Cook the Rest of the Animal ($22) will teach you how to handle and cook delicious meals using those unsung, largely unused parts like cheeks, tongues, necks, marrow, and more. It might sound gross, but then again, so did bacon moon pies — until you tried 'em.