archive for June 27th, 2008

I can read you like a cook: A review of “Kitchen Literacy”

by Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen @ Friday, June 27th, 2008.

Somewhere along the line, the knowledge base surrounding food dwindled as more home cooks turned to processed and even pre-prepared food. What influenced this loss of basic understanding? How did we become so estranged from the natural environment and the food web that supports us? Ann Vileisis spent a great deal of time researching those questions, and in “Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes From and Why We Need to Get It Back” she offers a complicated weave of historical events that persuaded us to adopt “an unspoken covenant between shoppers and an increasingly powerful food industry.”

Tom Philpott issues a composting call to farms

by Bonnie P. @ Friday, June 27th, 2008.

Two days ago Tom Philpott gave a challenging speech to organic food industry folks at the Organic Summit in Boulder, Co. He has published the text of those remarks as today’s Victual Reality column this week for Grist, and it’s a must-read. Tom has become a good friend of mine so he is going […]

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