Jesse Ashlock

I have, of late, been thinking a lot about the relationship between traveling and reading. One of the ways that I fell apart a little bit during the first year of the pandemic, as so many of us did, was that I largely stopped reading books. By early 2021, I had resolved to change this, and the return of travel helped me do it. That spring, I read Animal, Vegetable, Junk, Mark Bittman’s marvelous social history of our food systems, en route to Hawaii and arrived on the Big Island full of question…