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What's in a Number?How the press got the idea that food travels 1,500 miles from farm to plate.

By Jane BlackPosted Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008, at 6:48 AM ET

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Jane Black is a food writer at the Washington Post.
Illustration by Mark Alan Stamaty.
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