Depends a lot on where you live. Megan McArdle had a good summary of the situation in one of her pieces[1]: "It's no accident that certain sorts of food moveme

Depends a lot on where you live. Megan McArdle had a good summary of the situation in one of her pieces[1]: "It's no accident that certain sorts of food movements, like "eat local" and "eat simple," tend to start and thrive on the West Coast. If you're living next door to California's abundant, incredible produce, then it's easy to say that everyone ought to be chowing down on fresh local fruits and vegetables, rather than some processed or imported version. In the rest of the country, however, fresh local produce is available only in a narrow annual window -- and if you don't have the income to shop at a farmer's market, or nearby land where you can shop at farm stands or grow your own, it functionally isn't available at all." [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-05-01/cooking-simply-is-not-cheap https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-05-01/cooking-s...