An interview with Kelsey Timmerman, author of Where Am I Eating? (Wiley, 2013), which investigates what the reliance on imported food means for Americans, as well as for the people around the world who produce our food.
On the morning of August 6, 1763, at the English port of Harwich, a wandering navvy—what Americans would call a dockworker—might have glimpsed a sight passing strange and strangely beautiful. Making their way across the pebble-strewn beach...