If you want food that's truly local -- produced within your own time zone, say -- as well as the whole shebang of eco-foodie buzzwords -- natural, organic, sustainable, not to mention luscious and meatless -- think mushrooms.
Blue Plate Special interviews "selmelier" Mark Bitterman about his new book, Salted: A Manifesto on the World's Most Essential Mineral, and learn about this most necessary element in all its varieties.
When you buy tomatoes at the local Publix, Ahold, Kroger, or Walmart, you become the last link in a chain that is attached to shackles in south Florida.