Eat Local

摘要

Your culinary gain is the planet's loss. Sure, you can drive down a Virginia highway and get Philly cheese-steaks, New England clam chowder, buffalo wings and St. Louis-style ribs, but it's almost impossible to find the peanut soup the Old Do-rnminion State was famous for.rnAs with everything else, there are foodie progressives and foodie reactionaries, and they look at the peanut-soup problem differently. Mark Kur-lansky, the best-selling author of Salt and Cod, has a new book, titled The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food-Before the National HighwayrnSystem, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food Was Seasonal, Regional, and Traditional-From the Lost WPA Files (yes, he's the reactionary).