on food

I've just started this book & already it seems promising and engaging. Its about a family living in Arizona who moves to The Appalachians in hopes of living from the land for one year. Meaning, nothing they consume comes from a place where they do not know. I think its pretty incredible and something I would not put past doing. Just the notion of either growing everything that comes to your table, or driving to a farm to collect it seems incredible to me. No baggies of chips, nothing frozen, no kiwis from New Zealand (of which I must mention I am eating by the barrels at the moment).

**At most every meal, Americans eat food which has traveled an average of 1500 miles to get to them. Thats alarming!