Susanne Freidberg grew up in Portland, Oregon, and attended Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley. She has traveled extensively in Africa, and lived for a year in Burkina Faso. She has also spent many summers in Paris, and one balmy winter in Hong Kong.

She began following various fresh foods on their farm-to-market journeys when she first went to Africa at age twenty. Since then she has harvested organic endive in Belgium, sorted haricots verts in Ouagadougou, toured baby corn packhouses in Zambia, shadowed produce merchants at France’s Rungis wholesale market, stood nose-to-nose with water buffalo in Vermont, and pursued shipments of Australian lobsters into south China. Lately she has been exploring the controversies surrounding food's carbon footprint.

She has received fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, the Mellon Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Besides Fresh and her previous book, French Beans and Food Scares: Culture and Commerce in an Anxious Age (Oxford University Press, 2004) her writing has appeared in the Washington Post and numerous journals.

Susanne Freidberg lives part-time in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and part-time in Hanover, New Hampshire, where she is a Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College. She teaches classes on food and agriculture, globalization, and international development.

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Susanne Freidberg can be contacted at sfreidberg (at) gmail.com