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Gates Community Center
It is 6:30 p.m., do you know where your dinner came from? Ask most kids, today and they'd probably
 say, "The supermarket." Ask their parents: the answer might not be much different.
On Monday, Sept. 22 at 7 p.m. Ann Vileisis, the award-winning author of Kitchen Literacy: how we lost knowledge of where food comes from and why we need to get it back, offers a talk-with historic slides-of how Americans grew so distant from their dinners ... and their lunches ... and breakfasts ... and certainly from their snacks. The talk will be in Gates Community Center of College of the Atlantic.
Vileisis' sensory-rich journey through the history of preparing dinner focuses on what American cooks have known and not known about their foods as the distance between farm and kitchen increased. From eighteenth-century gardens and historic cookbooks to calculated advertising campaigns and sleek supermarket aisles, Vileisis chronicles profound changes in how Americans have shopped, cooked and thought about their foods through two centuries.
Ultimately, Vileisis talks about the current interest in knowing more about how and where foods are produced and how this culinary revolution has the potential to transform our relationship with food and place. A book signing follows the talk.
An independent scholar, writer and editor, Vileises' first book, Discovering the Unknown Landscape: a History of America's Wetlands, was awarded the George Perkins Marsh Prize for the best environmental history book of 1997 from the American Society of Environmental History. According to the Washington Post, Kitchen Literacy, "performs a valuable service in reminding readers that we were not always so clueless when it came to making food choices."
For more information on this talk at 7 p.m. on Sept. 22 in College of the Atlantic's Gates Center, call Ken Cline at 288-5015 ext. 264.
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