10 Ways We Learned Where Our Food Comes from This Year

This year, we continued our efforts to go around the world and learn where foods come from. We saw how authentic fish sauce gets made in a tiny Vietnamese village. We experienced an Alabama peanut harvest firsthand. We watched maple sap boil down into syrup in a hut in Vermont. We petted the cows in Jura, France, that produce the milk that makes Comté cheese.

And we didn't stop at food, either — we also went to the Lodge factory in Tennessee to learn how our beloved cast iron skillets are made. Here are the 10 ways we learned more about food this year.

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