An Archive Of Related Stories
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Article by Fred Gerendasy Photo: Left to right, Keith Agoada; Sawyer Emmer; and Troy Vosseller
One of the big challenges facing our modern industrial food system is the heavy reliance upon fossil fuels for the growing of crops, and the transporting of them long distances to market. An average head of lettuce travels 1500 miles […]
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Edible Portland Magazine
Fall 2007 Issue: CHANTERELLES: IN SEARCH OF THE ELUSIVE MUSHROOM Written by Ellen Jackson
Chanterelles grow exuberantly in the Northwest, and the golden (or yellow) variety is easy to find and identify—if you can persuade someone in the know to tell you where exactly to look. Wild mushroom hunting is a […]
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
In part 3 of Kitchen Literacy, Ann Vileisis talks about the need to start making connections between our consumption of food, and all the interrelated social, health, and environmental consequences that occur. Agricultural pollution is a large source of pollution in the United States. In her book, Ann looks to history to see […]
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
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 […]
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
PART 1—A conversation with author, Ann Vileisis about Kitchen Literacy, what we know about our food, and how we came to know it. For Ann, her book Kitchen Literacy came about because she was struck by how much she didn’t know about the common foods she encountered in the supermarket. In the research for […]
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