Dana Goodyear's latest book takes us on a journey through the underbelly of American food culture. From bugs to edible pot, she has seen and tasted it all for "Anything That Moves."
"Goodyear runs the tables on the freak end of the food spectrum here, going deep into the muck and worldviews of bug dealers, blood drinkers, pet-eaters, the historic food importers who first shaped the American palate, rogue chefs, coup-counting foodies who get their kicks eating whales and ant pupae, law-breaking devotees of the raw food movement and outlaw chefs doing secret dinners for those who style themselves as true devotees of cuisine because they will eat, well, anything," writes Jason Sheehan for NPR. "It's a buffet of gastronomic weirdness, of weed dinners and police stakeouts and back-alley deals where ants and lion meat are traded for fat stacks of cash in the way that duffel bags full of cocaine once were."
Goodyear's book strikes on some of the current foodie irony as the rich dine on the food of the world's poorest.
From The Salt:
The elite diners at the vanguard of the food movement — the ones who can afford to eat at restaurants where the tasting menu is $250 a head — more and more often are paying high prices to eat the foods of poverty.
"What does it mean," muses Goodyear, "that the richest people in the world are starting to eat like the survivors of a catastrophe?"
Goodyear joins The Daily Circuit to talk about the most interesting food trends and what to steer clear of.