Bet the Farm: How Food Stopped Being Food

by Frederick Kaufman

Book Overview

A prominent food journalist follows the trail from Big Pizza to square tomatoes to exploding food prices to Wall Street, trying figure out why we can't all have healthy, delicious, affordable food

In 2008, farmers grew enough to feed twice the world's population, yet more people starved than ever before--and most of them were farmers. In Bet the Farm, food writer Kaufman sets out to discover the connection between the global food system...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470631929
• ISBN13: 9780470631928
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Trade Paper Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.7"