Harvest Shopping

Harvest Run is a grocery list with a catch: nothing goes on it for free. Want carrots? Grab the greens and haul them out of the soil. Eggs? Shoo the hen off her nest and gather them one by one. Ground beef? Crank the grinder until it comes through. Ribeye? Find the exact part of the cow it is cut from, on a real butcher's chart. Every one of the 133 foods has its own mini-game — 32 different kinds of work, from churning butter and stirring curds to shaking an olive grove, sorting a canning line, netting shrimp and tending a smokehouse fire. Finish the chore and you get the story: the real journey that food takes from field to shelf, and one thing worth knowing about it. A lemon can hang on its tree for nearly a year. One jar of honey is the life's work of about 800 bees. A brisket takes twelve patient hours because it held up half the cow's weight, every day. Then it lands on your…