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root•ing for fruit, v: (1) to dig in the earth for edibles with or as if with the nose or snout; (2) to give audible encouragement or applause to that which sprouts from the land; (3) to become firmly established, settled, or entrenched in a place and the food that it yields

root•ing for fruit, n: (1) a collection of thoughts on the landscapes that support what we eat; (2) personal essays invoking the tangible, edible, and imagined relationships between the local and the global

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A native of New York, Jenny is currently a doctoral student in Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. She writes and researches on the politics and production of taste in the coffee industry, global + local food systems, agricultural land use change, and the culture and politics of environmental conservation and development. She has conducted fieldwork in Rwanda, Ethiopia, Japan, and California. You can also find her writing weekly at The Faster Times. She really likes finding edibles that grow wild, making foods from scratch, viewing landscapes from the air, and coming home.