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Hungry for change in our food system? Truthout turns to A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism

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A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism: Understanding the Political Economy of What We Eat
280 pp, $25 pbk, ISBN 978-1-58367-659-2
By Eric Holt-Giménez

Reviewed by Justin Theodra

“The centenary of the Russian Revolution has no doubt produced a cascade of lugubrious foodistas, made melancholy by the moribund march past 100. There is widespread disaffection with the fact that ‘capitalism is … assumed to be immutable and [is] rarely questioned’ according to Holt-Gimenez—and rightly so. But the solemnity of the centenary was made much less draining by the availability of Eric Holt-Gimenez’s A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism. Beneath the cringe-worthy title is a serious attempt to reintroduce the ‘C-word’ into the food discourse…”

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