It’s been a long week, and it isn’t just because our next edition of the Forbes magazine is getting sent to the printers. I’m excited that you’ll soon read my feature that’s included.
And, after a sold-out talk in Brooklyn earlier this week, I’m also excited to be traveling to Washington, D.C. on Tuesday for the next stop of my book tour for the paperback of Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed and the Fight for the Future of Meat.
While in the capital, I’ll also be doing some reporting. Has “Make America Healthy Again” been top of your mind, too? I’m all for much-needed changes in our food system. But as the saying goes, the devil is in the details. And I’m about to go deep on seed oils, fluoride in municipal water, food coloring bans and a whole lot more to make sure you are getting the full picture.
Food can harm us, and it also can heal. I’ll look forward to bringing you all angles on some of these complicated topics as we all navigate what’s ahead together.
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After my book event in Seattle, I embarked on a much-needed break from reality and headed up to the San Juan Islands, a chain of tiny, evergreen-covered hills and inlets north of Seattle and east of Vancouver. While staying on Orcas Island, I was shocked by how remote and majestic the landscape was. As was the food. The San Juans are abundant in wild seafood like Dungeness Crab in the winter, spot prawns in the summer. All year round, there’s bountiful kelps and even invasive purple sea urchins. At Matia Kitchen, which has earned several James Beard Award nominations over the years, I ate seaweeds and prawn toast. Pictured here is a dish of fried hamachi collars served with the fluffiest buns I’ve ever tried. Worth a trip in and of itself!
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Chloe Sorvino leads coverage of food and agriculture as a staff writer on the enterprise team at Forbes. Her book, Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed and the Fight for the Future of Meat, published on December 6, 2022, with Simon & Schuster’s Atria Books. Her nearly nine years of reporting at Forbes has brought her to In-N-Out Burger’s secret test kitchen, drought-ridden farms in California’s Central Valley, burnt-out national forests logged by a timber billionaire, a century-old slaughterhouse in Omaha and even a chocolate croissant factory designed like a medieval castle in northern France.
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