05 Mar 2023
L'Amour vache
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Food and Country
We're still growing.
America's policy of producing cheap food at all costs has long hobbled small independent farmers, ranchers, and chefs. Worried for their survival, trailblazing food writer Ruth Reichl reaches out across political and social divides to uncover the country's broken food system and the innovators risking it all to transform it.
Top Billed Cast
Alice Waters Self
Ruth Reichl Self
Grant Achatz Self
Brandon Jew Self
Nick Kokonas Self
Bren Smith Self
Saru Jayaraman Self
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