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Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes From and Why We Need to Get It Back (Large Print)
Kitchen Literacy How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes From and Why We Need to Get It Back - Large Print Author:Ann Vileisis From eighteenth-century gardens and historic cookbooks to calculated advertising campaigns and sleek supermarket aisles, Kitchen Literacy chronicles profound changes in how Americans have shopped, cooked, and thought about their foods through two centuries. This history of our changing awareness - not only of food but of nature itself - ta... more »kes us to bustling city markets, school gardens, ad-packed women's magazines, and home economics classes. While the distance between farm and table grew, we went from knowing specific stories behind foods' origins to relying instead on advertisers' claims and government assurances. As consumers gradually - and often begrudgingly - adjusted to buying modern foods in boxes and cans, they unwittingly adopted a habit of knowing very little about an enormous and anonymous system. By revealing the history of how we've known - and not known - our foods, Kitchen Literacy promises to make us think differently about what we eat.« less