On a Dollar a Day: One Couple's Unlikely Adventures in Eating in America

The bloggers responsible for OneDollarDietProject.com chronicle their month-long efforts to live on one dollar of food a day--the amount on which 15 percent of the world's population feeds themselves--offer ways people can eat more economically and healthfully and provide social commentary on the waste in American society. Original. 50,000 first printing.

Christopher Greenslate teaches English, Social Justice, and Journalism to high school students in San Diego. He founded the Social Justice program in the school district as a forum for students to discuss important issues of the day. The dollar-a-day project grew out of his desire to show his students how to get people to see an issue with a new perspective. He was the 2008 Reynolds Institute Fellow of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He has led workshops at large events such as the annual Teachers for Social Justice conference and the National High School Journalism Convention. Christopher was selected by Rotary International to travel to East Africa as part of a group exchange in 2009.

Kerri Leonard grew up in Northern California in a family of grocers and worked at a grocery store for six and a half years. Kerri teaches English and Speech and Debate in San Diego County. She was named Speech and Debate Coach of the Year in San Diego.

Christopher and Kerri live in Encinitas, California.