Book description
Ask children where food comes from, and they'll 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 disconnected from the sources…
Why read it?
1 author picked Kitchen Literacy as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This was one of the first books that I read that brought home for me how dramatic the transformation has been from how humans ate for hundreds of thousands of years to how they eat today in most parts of the world.
Recognizing that the industrialized food system is really quite new—barely an infant!—made me think about how we got here and maybe how we can change things in healthier directions moving forward.
Vileisis’s descriptions are rich and vivid, and her writing is a pleasure to read.
From Anna's list on The best books to understand how Americans came to eat so much processed food.
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