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Iowa Doesn't Only Control Politics, It Controls How We Eat
Mark Bittman, the author of How to Cook Everything and the founder and editor-in-chief of Heated, a Medium magazine, talks about his latest visit to Iowa where he determined that the state’s impact on the food system may be bigger and more difficult to change than its impact on politics.