Drop that cheese puff! Food sustains us, and we live more sustainably, if we make good food choices

With most of us sheltering at home these days, what is in our food pantry, and what to do with it, has become a more urgent question.

In the first days of coronavirus pandemic-related closures, author Sophie Egan sat onstage at a nearly empty Town Hall Seattle to talk about her new book How to Be a Conscious Eater: Making Food Choices That Are Good for You, Others, and the Planet.

Egan’s work offers a plethora of answers to questions like is organic food worth the cost, what’s the best egg, and should we eat farmed salmon? Egan considers three criteria for the choices she presents: Is it good for me? Is it good for others? Is it good for the planet? As the title suggests, the goal is to make smart choices and become more conscious eaters.

Sophie Egan had this conversation with New York Times columnist and award-winning author Timothy Egan (Yes, relation. He’s her Dad) at Town Hall Seattle on March 19. It was one of Town Hall’s last in-house events as the pandemic took hold. Check out their calendar of live streaming events available now.