Mini Tower Fan with Ionizer

February 4, 2008 | By Doug In Kitchen Islands |

-Built-in Ion generator -3 speed settings -45 oscillation -Programmable 1, 2, or 4-hour timer -LED indicator light -Low noise level -Dimensions: 15.7″H x 6.1″W x 7.1″D A stylish, space-saving mini tower fan that sits conveniently on your desktop or countertop. 3 speed settings generate quite, comfortable airflow. Built-in Ion generator to refresh the air. Small footprint fits conveniently in small spaces. 45 oscillation for wider air distribution.

Price: 29.95

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The Nor’easter
The gift that takes you by storm! Fabulous Tastes of New England including Maine’s own Stonewall Kitchen, Vermont’s Boves’ Sauce, Nantucket Bayou Rub, Boston Fruit Slices and many more. With a Classic New England Hamper as its base, this Gift is sure to please not only discriminating palates Nationwide, but will tantalize all to become Native New Englanders.

Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get It Back

Ask children where food comes from, and they’ll probably answer: “the supermarket.” Ask most adults, and their replies may not be much different. Where our foods are raised and what happens to them between farm and supermarket shelf have become mysteries. How did we become so disconnected from the sources of our breads, beef, cheeses, cereal, apples, and countless other foods that nourish us every day?

Ann Vileisis’s answer is a sensory-rich journey through the history of making dinner. Kitchen Literacy takes us from an eighteenth-century garden to today’s sleek supermarket aisles, and eventually to farmer’s markets that are now enjoying a resurgence. Vileisis chronicles profound changes in how American cooks have considered their foods over two centuries and delivers a powerful statement: what we don’t know could hurt us.

As the distance between farm and table grew, we went from knowing particular places and specific stories behind our foods’ origins to instead relying on advertisers’ claims. The woman who raised, plucked, and cooked her own chicken knew its entire life history while today most of us have no idea whether hormones were fed to our poultry. Industrialized eating is undeniably convenient, but it has also created health and environmental problems, including food-borne pathogens, toxic pesticides, and pollution from factory farms.

Though the hidden costs of modern meals can be high, Vileisis shows that greater understanding can lead consumers to healthier and more sustainable choices. Revealing how knowledge of our food has been lost and how it might now be regained, Kitchen Literacy promises to make us think differently about what we eat.

Customer Review: A “must-read” for modern-day consumers in the post-family farm era.
Award-winning historian Ann Vileisis presents Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get It Back lives up to its title as a journey through the history of the simple act of making dinner. From eighteenth-century gardens and historic cookbooks to the rise of calculated advertising campaigns and the modern supermarket. As the distance between the creation of food and the table at which it was eaten grew, modern preparers gradually lost their understanding food’s origins in exchange for believing advertiser’s claims and government assurances. Today, most foods travel fifteen hundred miles before they are eaten. In this modern era of pesticide-drenched fruits, and meat from feedlots of fifty thousand animals, foodborne pathogens and water pollution loom as threats. A movement toward locally grown or raised food and organic fare offers a counterbalance, but now more than ever we need to know the basics about where food comes from in order to ensure optimal health for ourselves and our environment. A “must-read” for modern-day consumers in the post-family farm era.

Palm Island Home Palm Lamp
You’ll love the unique look of this Palm Lamp that is 19″ high and made of resin.