Florencia Ramirez

Florencia Ramirez is the author of The Kitchen Activist and Eat Less Water, named a Top 100 Indie Book by Kirkus Reviews. A storyteller at heart and researcher by training, she weaves lived experience, science, and hope to show how the kitchen can be a powerful tool for change. Her work has been featured on NPR, KTLA, CBS, and KCRW’s Good Food. She is the founder of the Kitchen Activist Collective and the Pesticide Free Soil Project, and recipient of the Environmental Hero Award and the Gift of Freedom Award in Creative Nonfiction. She splits her time between Oxnard, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.


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The Kitchen Activist

Florencia Ramirez

Publication Date: November 3, 2026

$25.95 Tradepaper

ISBN: 9781636284965

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The KITCHEN ACTIVIST is a spirited guide to transforming daily food choices into meaningful environmental action. With warmth, humor, and grounded research, Florencia Ramirez invites readers to reimagine the kitchen as a catalyst for change—after all, the global food system accounts for over 30% of greenhouse gas emissions, and the home kitchen is responsible for 42% of all food waste. From smart meal planning to low-waste shopping and regenerative food sourcing, this book offers practical strategies rooted in environmental science, cultural wisdom, and personal storytelling. Whether you’re a seasoned cook or just starting out, The Kitchen Activist meets you where you are, with no judgment, only encouragement to begin making a difference. A follow-up to her award-winning Eat Less Water, this book serves as both a toolkit and a manifesto for anyone ready to connect their plate to the planet.



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Eat Less Water

Florencia Ramirez

Publication Date: November 1, 2017

$17.95 Tradepaper

ISBN: 978-1-59709-039-1

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The solution to worldwide water shortages is in our kitchens.

Experts predict two-thirds of people living on this planet in 2025 will experience water scarcity, a situation expected to result in the deaths of millions and an unprecedented rise in military conflicts. Can we as individuals hope to have any effect on the global scale of water misuse?

Yes, we can make a significant difference–with our food choices–learned author and activist Florencia Ramirez as she traveled across the nation to interview farmers and food producers. Tracing Ramirez’s tour of American water sustainable farms–from rice paddies in Cajun Louisiana to a Hawaiian coffee farm to a Boston chocolate factory and beyond–Eat Less Water tells the story of water served on our plates: an eye-opening account of the under-appreciated environmental threat of water scarcity, a useful cookbook with water-sustainable recipes accompanying each chapter, and a fascinating personal narrative that will teach the reader how they, too, can eat less water.

ADVANCE PRAISE

“Water is life; a fundamental human right. The movement to protect our water resources is here. We must all participate, if we are to save Mother Earth. Eat Less Water is an impassioned call to action. Read, learn, and act. Florencia Ramirez shows us how.”–Dolores Huerta, Co-Founder of the United Farm Workers, Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient, and President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation

“Eat Less Water is as clever as its title. It’s a thoughtful book complete with recipes that are as good for your taste buds as they are for the planet. Read it and learn. Read it and eat. Read it as a reminder that our world’s most precious resource is in jeopardy–and yet we can do something about it. Read it to find out how.”–Thomas M. Kostigen, New York Times bestselling author of The Green Book

“Eat Less Water is an informative, loving tribute to the source from which all life springs. Through explorations of foods ranging from pasta to wine, Florencia Ramirez reveals how cultivation and consumption impact global water usage, sharing insights on how we, the eaters, can support a less resource-intensive practice in food and agriculture that is not only sustainable but delicious.”–Simran Sethi, author of Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love

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FOREWORD praises EAT LESS WATER

Thanks to Anna Call from Foreword for the great review of Florencia Ramirez’s EAT LESS WATER, calling it “a charming work that gets its point across beautifully.”