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How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It)
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First Published:
Oct 2010, 384 pages
Paperback:
Aug 2011, 384 pages
Book Reviewed by:
Norah Piehl
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You may be amazed by how freely and easily we dispose of food, from farm to fork. But it can be equally amazing how freely and easily we can diminish our vast squandering. To achieve that feat, though, we need to fully understand and acknowledge the scope of the problem.
Excerpted from American Wasteland by Jonathan Bloom. Copyright © 2010 by Jonathan Bloom. Excerpted by permission of Da Capo Press. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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