alice weathers is someone who appreciates and reduce food. she not only started the influential berkeley, california, eatery, she's a founding foodie america's local singer should also establish the edible schoolyard program of a local middle school to better connect kids with their food. when asked waters for her take on a just a position of waste and hunger, she told me it's shameful to be wasteful around food when someone else's hungry. and i think we all know it. so, pretty heady stuff there. i promise that the entire but isn't quite that heavy. but when you start throwing around the word shame, it does get serious, and that was the case with some of these folks. so i thought from that beginning let's dial it down a bit and lighten things up a tiny bit. i wanted to talk a bit about the kind of journalism that i did in this book, and it's a bit of a mixed bag. there's a fair amount of traditional journalism, interviewing sources and referring to statistics in primary sources. and then i did some emerging journalism as well, where i actuall