it's about as far as you can get from those individually wrapped yellow squares we call cheese back home. in the u.s., we're stuck with a highly regulated corporate machine that, yes, is making our food faster and cheaper, but at what cost? you are what you eat. you've heard that before. but what does it really mean when you're eating things like high fructose corn syrup. americans on average get more than 60% of their calories from ultra processed foods, sugar, salt, saturated fat, as well as i bunch of chemicals and compounds you can't even pronounce. there's long been a resistance here to mass produced fast food, and it came to a head in the late '80s when mcdonald's set up shop near rome's spanish steps. led but a young food writer named carla petrini, italians