Today's dietary climate is not what it used to be. Whether we like it or not, the fact is that Americans are busier than we were 30 or 40 years ago. Plus, we exercise less, go outdoors less, and rely on increasingly unhealthy foods for our daily calorie intake. We eat fast food regularly, we rely on preservative-heavy frozen and packaged foods, and we eat fewer fresh fruits and vegetables than any generation before us. These are just the simple facts.But there is good news. Thanks to 21st century culinary and dietary movements, we're now living through a renaissance in the American diet. We're re-learning the value of fresh produce, healthy ingredients, and old-fashioned home cooking, and we're applying these new (or old, depending on how you look at it) approaches to a far wider and more cosmopolitan variety of food choices than our grandparents could have imagined. If you
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