But if the point is to make the argument that there is little benefit to seasonal cooking or small-farm animal husbandry, you lose me completely. He seems to s

But if the point is to make the argument that there is little benefit to seasonal cooking or small-farm animal husbandry, you lose me completely. He seems to say the opposite. He praises fresh food and praises eating seasonally for its flavor and other benefits. What he objects to is eating locally in a dogmatic way and he objects to trying to use transportation costs as a justification for that. He largely debunks the transportation cost argument and says that forcing crops to grow in inappropriate places (like tomatoes in the Hudson Valley) is worse than shipping them. one thing that I think is hard to argue is that America needs more and better home cooks. I would argue that, at least in dense urban areas. There are enormous economies of scale in storing and preparing more food communally. If you look at a college dorm or military barracks, they generally do not have the facilities to store or cook food (I'm excluding pure microwave cooking) in each room, but instead have some form of caffeteria. Thus, they save a huge amount of space in the rooms by not having a kitchen, energy since the refrigeration is done in large, effecient units and so is the cooking, and time for the people living there. I think there would be a cultural resistance to moving this model into a lot of apartment buildings, but there would be a lot of advantages to doing so.