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Hippie Food - How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat (Hardcover)
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Hippie Food - How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat (Hardcover)
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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.
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