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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: Island, 2008. 332 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-1-59726-144-9.)
In Kitchen Literacy, Ann Vileisis offers a clearly written, historically grounded, and impassioned discussion of how and why Americans became so ignorant about the food they buy, cook, and eat. She links that devolution of "kitchen literacy" to dramatic changes wrought by industrialization and urbanization in the late 1800s. While her history of the transformation of America's foodways is not a new one, Vileisis presents a timely examination of how that transformation altered Americans' daily interactions with food. . . .
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