How Can We Make More Sustainable Food Choices? Read The Blue Plate

Mark Easter’s new book offers a perspective into the natural world and our food systems that is at once lyrical and deeply researched.

Mark Easter, author of The Blue Plate, a book that answers the question 'How can we make more sustainable food choices?' Easter is a professional ecologist who often travels with his four-legged assistant, Bonny, pictured here. Mark Easter (photographed by Luke Traeger)

Once in a great while, a book is published that refuses to allow me to look at the wo…