Why we eat what we eat - the stories behind the recipes.
American Food Roots addresses the question: “Why do we eat what we eat?” The answer depends, of course, on where you live, where you used to live, where your grandparents lived. It’s all there on the American plate.
Lots of food publications embrace the pleasurable and entertaining parts of food and ignore everything else; others focus on the serious issues and ignore the joy. The Bittman Project does both. (Plus, plenty of recipes.)