Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail

Deborah Barndt offers the best analysis I have read of the philosophical foundations that allowed North Americans to lose our connections with food. She explores how our approach to food represents a larger worldview that believes it is possible to reduce everything down to logical and quantifiable formulas. It also sees nature (and natural food and natural processes) as somewhat dangerous both physically and culturally, so that we feel a need to tame nature and make it work in our favor. She also then ties this analysis to the lives of real people, so that we can see how such an approach actually plays out in our society. Although the text is dense at times, this is worth the time and thought it might take. EXCELLENT!