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Food and Country

120 families here that we don't know how wecan keep on the payroll

120 families here that we don't know how we
can keep on the payroll

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120 families here
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that we don't know how we can keep on the payroll.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
22
Timestamp in Movie
01:01:44
Uploaded
Apr 02, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Foothill Productions,Real Lava,Sustainable Films,Range Media Partners,The deNovo Initiative,Tiger Tales Media,Bewilder Films,Ideal Partners

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Movie Summary

Trailblazing food writer Ruth Reichl examines the precarious state of America's food system. A Sundance Film Festival premiere.
We're not smart enough as a society to work together to connect those dots. - Food and Country 00:09
We're not smart enough as a society to work together to...
It's a ripple-down effect, and it's a struggle. - Food and Country 00:06
It's a ripple-down effect, and it's a struggle.
When we were in our twenties and we all moved to California, - Food and Country 00:09
When we were in our twenties and we all moved to California,
We weren't going to be beholden to corporate America. - Food and Country 00:06
We weren't going to be beholden to corporate America.
Um, you could live really on nothing in those days. - Food and Country 00:06
Um, you could live really on nothing in those days.
We all bought that house together, that group of us. - Food and Country 00:05
We all bought that house together, that group of us.
I mean, Doug and my share of the rent was $45 a month. - Food and Country 00:07
I mean, Doug and my share of the rent was $45 a month.
We raised half our own food, - Food and Country 00:10
We raised half our own food,
And I don't think you can do that anymore. - Food and Country 00:05
And I don't think you can do that anymore.
Oh, God, I didn't leave the beans on the fire, did I? - Food and Country 00:06
Oh, God, I didn't leave the beans on the fire, did I?
Did you? [laughing] - Food and Country 00:07
Did you? [laughing]
Can I ask a really stupid question? Are you a good cook? - Food and Country 00:06
Can I ask a really stupid question? Are you a good cook?
- Yeah, I am a good cook. - [laughing] - Food and Country 00:17
- Yeah, I am a good cook. - [laughing]
[Ruth] It's what I do, you know, - Food and Country 00:08
[Ruth] It's what I do, you know,
I feel like I've sort of spent my whole life working up to this project. - Food and Country 00:07
I feel like I've sort of spent my whole life working up...
It also makes me feel like a terrible failure, - Food and Country 00:09
It also makes me feel like a terrible failure,
We were talking about the concentration - Food and Country 00:08
We were talking about the concentration
And we just let it happen, you know? - Food and Country 00:06
And we just let it happen, you know?
This wave came over us, - Food and Country 00:10
This wave came over us,
You know, a whole group of us who started out with the politics of food, - Food and Country 00:16
You know, a whole group of us who started out with the polit...