Title |
Kitchen literacy how we lost knowledge of where food comes from and why we need to get it back
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Names |
Vileisis, Ann.
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Book Number |
DB066852
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Title Status |
Active
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Medium |
Digital Book
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Download Link |
Downloadable talking book.
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Annotation |
Award-winning historian chronicles changes in Americans' awareness of food origins and production since the late eighteenth century. Cites the shift from an agrarian to an urban society and the rise of industrialized farming and of consumerism. Discusses the estrangement from nature and a countertrend toward locally grown, organic foods. 2008.
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Narrator |
Cundiff, Kerry.
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Local Subject |
Adult Book - AD
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Adult Non-Fiction - AN
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Short Book - SH
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Medicine & Health - MED
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Fitness & Diet - FIT
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History - HST
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History, United States - HUS
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Cooking & Housekeeping - CKH
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Home economics & Homemaking - HOME
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Audience Notes |
Female narrator.
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LC Subject |
Cookery, American - History
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Diet - United States - History
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Food habits - United States - History
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Call Number |
641.5973 ANF
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Language |
English
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Released |
2008
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Publication Info |
Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 2008 (American Printing House for the Blind, recording studio).
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Original Publication |
Recorded from: Washington : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2008. 9781597261449
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