For $1 you get 10 – blueberries, that is…
GoodFood World, November 21st, 2010  One dollar's worth of early season organic blueberries from California
Photographer Jonathan Blaustein captures the value of what we eat, economically and to some degree nutritionally, in a collection called The Value of a Dollar.
Said Blaustein, “[A] lot of this project was really about shopping. It was about consuming. Shopping is the American way… The fact that healthy food has become the luxury item in many ways, I think is something I’m trying to draw people’s attention to.”
Read the transcript of Kai Ryssdal’s November 19 NPR interview with Blaustein here.
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