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How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It)
Da Capo Press
October 2010
On Sale: October 12, 2010
384 pages
ISBN: 0738213640
EAN: 9780738213644
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
What Tom Vanderbilt did for traffic and Brian Wansink
did for mindless eating, Jonathan Bloom does for food waste.
The topic couldn’t be timelier: As more people are going
hungry while simultaneously more people are morbidly obese,
American Wasteland sheds light on the history,
culture, and mindset of waste while exploring the parallel
eco-friendly and sustainable-food movements. As the era of
unprecedented prosperity comes to an end, it’s time to
reexamine our culture of excess. Working at both a local
grocery store and a major fast food chain and volunteering
with a food recovery group, Bloom also interviews
experts—from Brian Wansink to Alice Waters to Nobel
Prize–winning economist Amartya Sen—and digs up not only why
and how we waste, but, more importantly, what we can do to
change our ways.
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