Where Am I Eating?

An Adventure Through the Global Food Economy

By: Kelsey Timmerman

Narrated by: David Ledoux

Length: 11 hrs

Publisher's summary

Bridges the gap between global farmers and fishermen and American consumers.

America now imports twice as much food as it did a decade ago. What does this increased reliance on imported food mean for the people around the globe who produce our food? Kelsey Timmerman set out on a global quest to meet the farmers and fisherman who grow and catch our food, working alongside them: loading lobster boats in Nicaragua, splitting cocoa beans with a machete in Ivory Coast, and hauling tomatoes in Ohio. Where Am I Eating? tells fascinating stories of the farmers and fishermen around the world who produce the food we eat, explaining what their lives are like and how our habits affect them.

Where Am I Eating? shows how what we eat affects the lives of the people who produce our food, and explores the global food economy including workers' rights, the global food crisis, fair trade, and immigration. Where Am I Eating? does not argue for or against the globalization of food but personalizes it by observing the hope and opportunity, and sometimes the lack thereof, that the global food economy gives to the world's poorest producers.

Author Kelsey Timmerman has spoken at close to 100 schools around the globe about his first book, Where Am I Wearing? A Global Tour of the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes. He has been featured in the Financial Times and has discussed social issues on NPR's Talk of the Nation and Fox News Radio.

©2013 Kelsey Timmerman (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

Decent, but Touchy-Feely and a Little Whiny

The author meets with a lot of people in the food industry who are overworked and underpaid, but it isn’t clear how this would change if they were in a different line of work.

He simultaneously complains that food is too cheap and also that it is too expensive. Americans produce too much food and also not enough. Ethical certification programs are vitally important and also completely worthless. And somehow this is all the fault of, well it isn’t clear who. Whenever he meets someone who might be to blame, they turn out to be just as overworked and underpaid with problems of their own.

Enlightening

I’ve never left a review on a book before, and I really enjoy most things I read, but I’ve never felt like leaving a review until now. This book taught me so much. It was like I was learning without even realizing how much I was learning because I genuinely enjoyed the story so much. It was more than just a book about where our food comes from- it was an intriguing story about the food system. Kelsey travels to some of the most dangerous parts of the world to teach his audience about the harsh realities of how our food is made, but he does it in a way that doesn’t guilt the audience, but rather, inspires us. Plus the narrator for this book was fabulous. A must read for anyone interested in food.