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Kitchen literacy : how we lost knowledge of where food comes from and why we need to get it back /
Ask children where food comes from, and they will probably answer: "the supermarket." Ask most adults, and their replies may not be much different. Where our foods are raised and what happens to them between farm and supermarket shelf have become mysteries. How did we become so disconnecte...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington :
Island Press/Shearwater Books,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Missing stories
- ch. 1. A meal by Martha
- Envisioning a foodshed
- Nature in Martha's garden
- Tales of turkeys
- The energy of eating
- Consciousness of cookery
- ch. 2. To market, to market
- The transcription of kitchen know-how
- To market
- Who did the shopping?
- ch. 3. Mystifying the mundane
- Place of origin
- The waning of wild foods
- The abstraction of animals' lives
- ch. 4. Denaturing the senses
- The debut of cans
- The power of labels
- The mimicry of margarine
- Eating by eye
- ch. 5. A new longing for nature
- The civility of cookery
- The grounding nature of growing food
- The unseemliness of stewed songbirds
- The all-natural body
- Allure of the natural.
- ch. 6. Rise of the modern food sensibility
- Bolstering brand names and promoting packages
- The home economists' twist
- Not-so-contented cows
- The appeal of the modern
- Nature transcended
- ch. 7. The covenant of ignorance
- New food chains : the rise of supermarket shopping
- 100 million guinea pigs
- The secrets of DDT
- For convenience sake
- Hidden on supermarket shelves
- ch. 8. Kitchen countertrends
- The persistence of the natural
- Burgers and rain forests
- A purposeful palate
- Turning attention back to farms
- Epilogue : Returning stories to the modern kitchen
- Notes
- Illustration credits
- Acknowledgments
- Index.