Kitchen Literacy - How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes From Why We Need to Get It

Informationen zum Autor Ann Vileisis is a writer and historian. She is the author of Discovering the Unknown Landscape: A History of America's Wetlands (Island Press, 1997), which won prestigious awards from the American Historical Association and the American Society for Environmental History. An avid gardener and cook, she lives on the Oregon coast. Klappentext As the distance between farm and table grew, we went from knowing particular places and specific stories behind our foods' origins to instead relying on advertisers' claims. The woman who raised, plucked, and cooked her own chicken knew its entire life history while today most of us have no idea whether hormones were fed to our poultry. Industrialized eating is undeniably convenient, but it has also created health and environmental problems, including food-borne pathogens, toxic pesticides, and pollution from factory farms. Though the hidden costs of modern meals can be high, Vileisis shows that greater understanding can lead consumers to healthier and more sustainable choices. Revealing how knowledge of our food has been lost and how it might now be regained, "Kitchen Literacy "promises to make us think differently about what we eat.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Vileisis, Ann Vileisis, Vileisis Ann
• Editore: Island Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.03.2010
• EAN: 9781597267175
• ISBN: 978-1-59726-717-5
• Pagine: 360
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Salute > Alimentazione; Saggistica > Storia > Altro; USA, COOKING / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Cookery / food & drink etc, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Cookery / food and drink / food writing / cookbooks