Food and Country
8.1
2024
1 hr 40 min
Documentary
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.
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- Cast：
- Alice Waters , Grant Achatz , Saru Jayaraman
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Good idea lost in the noise
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good back-story, and good acting
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Absolutely the worst movie.
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At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
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