
Ruin Their Crops on the Ground
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History
Winner of the James Beard Media Award in Food Issues and Advocacy
The first and definitive history of the use of food in United States law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control, a Fast Food Nation for the Black Lives Matter era
In 1779, to subjugate Indigenous nations, George Washington ordered his troops to “ruin their crops now in the...
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History
Winner of the James Beard Media Award in Food Issues and Advocacy
The first and definitive history of the use of food in United States law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control, a Fast Food Nation for the Black Lives Matter era
In 1779, to subjugate Indigenous nations, George Washington ordered his troops to “ruin their crops now in the...
