The Y2K Survival Guide and Cookbook. This item is unavailable.The Y2K Survival Guide and Cookbook

When the clock strikes 12 on Friday, December 31st of 1999, will all our computers register 1900 instead of 2000 causing a massive shutdown of utilities, banks, and government services? Those who prepare far the possibility of catastrophe will have a much easier time surviving if it happens. And today is the day to begin to prepare, not after mass hysteria develops, long lines form, and shelves are empty.

This book is an invaluable resource to prepare for just such a disaster. It contains recipes and methods for cooking without a kitchen stove, information on buying and storing food, general supplies to have on hand, drinking water, lanters, root cellars, hand pumps, cisterns, waste disposal, dry toilets, emergency medicinal care, cold frames, greenhouses, making sauerkraut, and much more.

Be prepared to cope with catastrophe, Y2K or otherwise.
Quit your Y2K bellyaching and get ready for chaos: Build a straw-bale greenhouse, cook up a bucket of yeast sauce or catch rainwater in a trash can.

And that's just for starters, according to the authors of "The Y2K Survival Guide and Cookbook," a 128-page paperback. The book was written to help people cope with catastrophe, whether it be anticipated computer glitches in 2000 or a major earthquake.

"Don't just wring your hands, get busy and do something about it," said author Dorothy R. Bates, who has written nine cookbooks. Her co-author and son, Albert K. Bates, has written six books on energy, environment and history.

Their Y2K book gives recipes for wood stove, fireplace and campfire cooking, with ingredients that don't require refrigeration. You may not have electricity at the turn of the century, but you could have cheese-less macaroni--with a secret ingredient. It's a nutritional yeast sauce, which is a cheese substitute.

The book was written as a handbook for a Y2K preparedness course presented by the Ecovillage Training Center in Summertown, Tenn., which provides courses on sustainable, self-reliant living.