Kitchen Literacy 2
PART 2—Continuing our conversation with Ann Vileisis, author of Kitchen Literacy, she explains how over time we became gradually disassociated from how foods were produced, and where they originated. Most importantly, the advertising industry played a significant role in changing American values toward food, and easing the transformation to the industrial food production system of today. No easy feat to accomplish, it took 50 years to fully inculcate society to the new norms of food consumption. Related: Food Is Love: Advertising and Gender Roles In Modern America
January 30th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Canning was invented in the mid 1800s. I never knew that the norm was to feel uneasy about them for nearly 100 years.
January 31st, 2008 at 1:40 pm
lol of course, home canning used to be big a long time ago. So technology may have been invented in 1880s, but still took a while to sell consumers on the commercial canning idea.
February 22nd, 2008 at 3:56 am
Rebecca, really enjoying this series!
February 22nd, 2008 at 4:07 pm
I learned so much from Ann. It all makes sense to me now, how our food evolved to where it is today. Like she says, it’s time to get back to knowing where our food comes from. Wisdom in those words.