Food & Supply: A Survival Guide for Women in Authoritarian America (Infrastructure)

Product Description

Food & Supply is the third book in the EATMS Productions Infrastructure series, a practical food system survival guide for women trying to understand grocery prices, food inflation, shortages, food deserts, supply chains, SNAP, WIC, school meals, processing plants, trucking, warehouses, and the systems that decide what reaches the shelf, what disappears, and what a household is expected to absorb.Written by Alice Horton and Helena Hemmings, with an introduction by Esme Mees, this book begins with ordinary household moments: a cart that costs more than it did last month, a familiar item missing from the shelf, a smaller package for the same price, a longer drive to a real grocery store, or a food benefit that no longer stretches far enough. Then it moves outward to explain the larger machinery behind those private emergencies. Food & Supply covers food as infrastructure, grocery shelves, farms and labor, processing plants, trucking, warehouses, food deserts, food inflation, shortages, household food planning, AI and automation in the supply chain, food assistance, medical food needs, caregiving risk, and what a household can actually check before crisis.This is not a nutrition book, cookbook, gardening book, homesteading manual, or prepper fantasy. It is a women-centered infrastructure survival guide for authoritarian America: a field guide to what happens when food systems become more fragile, grocery chains consolidate, prices rise faster than wages, rural and low-income areas lose access, public food programs are thinned out or made harder to reach, and the private work of keeping everyone fed lands inside the home. As part of the EATMS Productions catalog of survival guides, systems analysis, and social criticism, this volume gives readers a practical method for understanding food pressure, identifying weak points, locating responsibility, and refusing shame for failures built far above the household level.For readers interested in food inflation, grocery prices, food shortages, food deserts, SNAP, WIC, school meals, supply chains, grocery store access, food assistance, food insecurity, rural grocery access, household food planning, processing plants, trucking, warehouses, shrinkflation, caregiving, women’s survival guides, authoritarian America, AI automation, supply chain disruption, and practical infrastructure analysis, Food & Supply offers a clear, blunt, women-centered guide. It does not promise total control. It gives readers a clearer map of how food reaches a kitchen, what changes when the system gets shaky, what to check before crisis, what to do when prices rise or shelves thin out, and what not to waste energy blaming themselves for.