A Review of: “Kitchen Literacy: How we Lost Knowledge of where Food Comes from and why we Need to get it Back”

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Notes

1. See her award-winning 1999 work Discovering the Unknown Landscape: A History of America's Wetlands, also published by Island Press.

2. Nancy Jenkins, 2005. “Martha Ballard: A Woman's Place on the Eastern Frontier” in From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies, Arlene Voski Avakian and Barbara Haber, eds. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press) pp. 109–119, mentions coffee, tea, molasses, salt and pepper, garden seed, tobacco, and sugar as food items Martha acquired from beyond the region.

3. See Laura Shapiro, 2004. Something from the Oven: Reinventing dinner in 1950s America. (New York: Viking).