Food in 2011: The Nutrition Recession
Global Wire
By Talia Whyte
Yesterday I listened to Living on Earth’s Holiday Special, where they had on Firoozeh Dumas, an Iranian-American humorist, who talked about her assimilation into America’s food culture. While growing up in Iran, Dumas talked about going to farmers’ markets with her mother and buying food fresh…
…America being a land of immigrants has prided itself for embracing the many food traditions that have been imported to these shores over the last 500 years. But in recent years, no thanks to the way the American food system is set up, many healthy ethnic foods are being erased for a more processed and packaged diet of Chicken McNuggets, KFC Double Downs and Slurpees.
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