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 her book, she was surprised to learn how much people expected to know about their food in pre-industrial times.
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VIDEO: Food News: Kitchen Literacy
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Submitted by Cooking Up A Story on Fri, 2008-01-25 20:37. | Tags: food | Farmers Markets | farming | gardening | history | planting | video
Video: Trees and Climate Change
(via video.energypolicytv.com)
RuHartwell from Treeflights.com shows how quick it is to plant atree, and how trees grow a lot quicker than people imagine. Trees soak up the carbon dioxide, the emission of which is blamed forglobal warming.
Submitted by EPTV on Tue, 2008-01-08 15:51. | Tags: take action | carbon | climate change | CO2 | forests | global warming | planting | trees | video