David R. Montgomery is a professor at the University of Washington and a 2008 MacArthur Fellow. Anne Biklé is a biologist and environmental planner. What Your Food Ate is the capstone of their “Dirt Trilogy.” She lives in Seattle, Washington.
Authoritative, informative, and entertaining. Montgomery and Bikle trace the way an array of health-promoting compounds in food begins with how we treat the soil. What Your Food Ate is both eye-opening and a call to action for consumers, farmers, and food companies alike--Emeran Mayer, MD, author of The Mind-Gut Connection Sure to become a classic--a biological Rosetta Stone that intimately and elegantly shows how the health of soil, plants, animals, and human beings are inseparable. What Your Food Ate is timely wisdom needed by all, an exquisitely crafted narrative of ecological literacy that upends more than a century of conventional thinking that fostered the misguided dominance of chemical farms, ultra-processed food, and the global rise of metabolic disease.--Paul Hawken, author of Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation