The Story of How America Eats
The hands, histories, and decisions that shape how a nation feeds itself
Friends,
We begin this week in unexpected places — a soybean field in Arkansas, a citrus grove in California, among the peach trees of the Willamette Valley. They all share one truth: our lives depend on people and systems we rarely see up close.
A trade deal in Beijing can decide whether a farmer in Iowa keeps his land. A century-old law can still make …