| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.3

You have not been recognized as a subscriber to Enviromental History online. About 170 words from this article are provided below; about 390 words remain.

If you are a individual subscriber to Environmental History, you may:: • login here if you have already registered for online access.; • Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.
• Set up your online account for the first time.
If you are not a subscriber to the Environmental History, you can:: • get subscription information here.
• Purchase a research pass to gain two hour access to the entire History Cooperative web site. You will have full access to current issues of Environmental History (8.1-present).
Instititutions can:: • get subscription information here to receive print and electronic issues.
• Activate your existing subscription so that we recognize your IP number ranges.

| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.3 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get It Back. By Ann Vileisis. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2007. 352 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth $26.95.
Ann Vileisis explores changes in American eating habits over more than two hundred years, and in doing so, reveals how the most basic human connection with nature—as a source of sustenance—became attenuated and indifferent, leaving consumers mentally disengaged from the world around them.	1
Vileisis begins her story with a return to Martha Ballard's famous diary, reminding us that prior to the late nineteenth century, most Americans possessed intimate knowledge of the foodsheds from which their meals were drawn. To some extent, Vileisis challenges historiography that focuses on the disruptive force of agriculture, by arguing that despite its usurpations, pre-agribusiness farming provided humans with personal connections to the ecosystems in which they lived. "Yet at the same time farming changes and disrupts, it relies and rests upon nature's rhythms" (p. 17).	. . .

There are about 390 more words in this article. Please log in (or, if you are not yet an authorized user, please go to the User Setup page) to gain full access rights. Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.