Hippie food : how back-to-the-landers, longhairs, and revolutionaries changed the way we eat / Jonathan Kauffman.
2018
GT2853.U5 K38 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
Hippie food : how back-to-the-landers, longhairs, and revolutionaries changed the way we eat / Jonathan Kauffman.
Author
Kauffman, Jonathan, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780062437303 (hardcover)
0062437305 (hardcover)
0062437305 (hardcover)
Published
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]
Language
English
Language Note
Text in English.
Description
344 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
GT2853.U5 K38 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
394.1/20973
Summary
"An enlightening narrative history--an entertaining fusion of Tom Wolfe and Michael Pollan--that traces the colorful origins of once unconventional foods and the diverse fringe movements, charismatic gurus, and counterculture elements that brought them to the mainstream and created a distinctly American cuisine. Food writer Jonathan Kauffman journeys back more than half a century--to the 1960s and 1970s--to tell the story of how a coterie of unusual men and women embraced an alternative lifestyle that would ultimately change how modern Americans eat. Impeccably researched, Hippie Food chronicles how the longhairs, revolutionaries, and back-to-the-landers rejected the square establishment of President Richard Nixon's America and turned to a more idealistic and wholesome communal way of life and food. From the mystical rock-and-roll cult known as the Source Family and its legendary vegetarian restaurant in Hollywood to the Diggers' brown bread in the Summer of Love to the rise of the co-op and the origins of the organic food craze, Kauffman reveals how today's quotidian whole-foods staples--including sprouts, tofu, yogurt, brown rice, and whole-grain bread--were introduced and eventually became part of our diets. From coast to coast, through Oregon, Texas, Tennessee, Minnesota, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Vermont, Kauffman tracks hippie food's journey from niche oddity to a cuisine that hit every corner of this country. A slick mix of gonzo playfulness, evocative detail, skillful pacing, and elegant writing, Hippie Food is a lively, engaging, and informative read that deepens our understanding of our culture and our lives today."-- (Source of summary not specified).
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical reference (pages 293-332) and index.
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Table of Contents
Fruits, seeds, and (health) nuts in Southern California
Brown rice and the macrobiotic pioneers
Brown bread and the pursuit of wholesomeness
Tofu, the political dish
Back-to-the-landers and organic farming
Vegetarians on the curry trail
Food co-ops, social revolutionaries, and the birth of an industry.
Brown rice and the macrobiotic pioneers
Brown bread and the pursuit of wholesomeness
Tofu, the political dish
Back-to-the-landers and organic farming
Vegetarians on the curry trail
Food co-ops, social revolutionaries, and the birth of an industry.