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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.”

An “Unsettling” look at industrial agriculture

by Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen @ Friday, March 7th, 2008.

The flaws of industrial agriculture and the current backlash against it came into sharp focus a couple of weeks ago, following the death of former Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, well-known for his exhortations to farmers to "Get big or get out" and to plant from "fence row to fence row." Between the success […]

The joy of cookbooks: Judith Jones’s “The Tenth Muse”

by Jennifer M. aka Baklava Queen @ Wednesday, December 19th, 2007.

Nearly fifty years after editing “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” the book that launched Julia Child, Judith Jones (now senior editor and vice-president at Alfred A. Knopf) has written her own memoir: “The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food.” Having grown up in a family that served only staid, simple, British-influenced meals, she developed a passion for food and cooking that led her to France (and back) and, eventually, to editing a large number of ground-breaking cookbooks.

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