- Published: 1 February 2022
- ISBN: 9780553459418
- Imprint: Avery
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $39.99
The Secret Life of Groceries
The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
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- Published: 1 February 2022
- ISBN: 9780553459418
- Imprint: Avery
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $39.99
"An intense, immersive, humorous, and sometimes shocking portrait of the modern American supermarket." —NPR "The Secret Life of Groceries reveals the unsustainable reality of American shopping...no reader of this ambitious book will enter a store the same." —San Francisco Chronicle “The Secret Life of Groceries takes us on a tour through the lives that the food system touches so that we have clear eyes about the human and environmental cost of our demands. If we can stomach it." —The Washington Post
"An intense, immersive, humorous, and sometimes shocking portrait of the modern American supermarket." —NPR "The Secret Life of Groceries reveals the unsustainable reality of American shopping...no reader of this ambitious book will enter a store the same." —San Francisco Chronicle “The Secret Life of Groceries takes us on a tour through the lives that the food system touches so that we have clear eyes about the human and environmental cost of our demands. If we can stomach it." —The Washington Post