Come to the Ecotrust building tonight, Monday November 5th from 5:30 to 6:30 for a lecture by an Oregon author!

FREE
Ecotrust Conference Center
721 NW Ninth Ave, 2nd Floor
Portland, OR 97209

From Ecotrust:
Ecotrust's Food & Farms program welcomes Ann Vileisis, author of Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get It Back, for an evening presentation and slide show discussing her new book.
 
"Kitchen Literacy chronicles a history of our changing awareness – not only of food but of nature itself," says author Ann Vileisis. "While the distance between farm and table grew, we went from knowing specific stories behind food's origins to relying instead on advertisers' claims and government assurances."
 
Vileisis will take viewers on a sensory-rich journey through the history of preparing dinner, with special attention to what urban and suburban cooks have known, and not known, about their foods as the distance between farm and kitchen grew.
 
The talk will conclude with a discussion of modern shoppers' renewed interest in knowing more about how and where their foods are produced. The revealing presentation features fascinating historic images and promises to make people think differently about what they know about what they eat