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  • Unprocessed

  • My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food
  • By: Megan Kimble
  • Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
  • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Unprocessed

By: Megan Kimble
Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
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Summary

In January of 2012, Megan Kimble was a 26-year-old living in a small apartment without even a garden plot to her name. But she cared about where food came from, how it was made, and what it did to her body: so she decided to go an entire year without eating processed foods. Unprocessed is the narrative of Megan's extraordinary year, in which she milled wheat, extracted salt from the sea, milked a goat, slaughtered a sheep, and more - all while earning an income that fell well below the federal poverty line.

What makes a food processed? As Megan would soon realize, the answer to that question went far beyond cutting out snacks and sodas, and became a fascinating journey through America's food system, past and present. She learned how wheat became white; how fresh produce was globalized and animals industrialized. But she also discovered that in daily life, as she attempted to balance her project with a normal social life - which included dating - the question of what made a food processed was inextricably tied to gender and economy, politics and money, work and play.

Backed by extensive research and wide-ranging interviews, Unprocessed offers provocative insights not only on the process of food, but also the processes that shape our habits, communities, and day-to-day lives.

©2015 Megan Kimble (P)2019 Tantor
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Well researched, but unrealistic.

I’m the introduction she claims to want you to show how a real, money and time poor person can go unprocessed.

Cue a chapter where she buys wheat germ from a neighbour, grinds her own wheat and makes bread.

Cue a chapter where she visits a bee keeper to buy fresh honey instead of buying evil processed sugar.

Stopped at the chapter where she purchases cacao beans, and makes her own chocolate.

I’m not sure our ideas of ‘time and money poor’ quite match up.

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