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Hippie Food
Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat | Jonathan Kauffman
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An enlightening narrative historyan entertaining fusion of Tom Wolfe and Michael Pollanthat 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 centuryto the 1960s and 1970sto 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 Nixons 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 todays quotidian whole-foods staplesincluding sprouts, tofu, yogurt, brown rice, and whole-grain breadwere introduced and eventually became part of our diets. From coast to coast, through Oregon, Texas, Tennessee, Minnesota, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Vermont, Kauffman tracks hippie foods 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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DebinHawaii
DebinHawaii
Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat | Jonathan Kauffman
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#MagicalMay #Nostalgia

My pick for the virtual foodie bookclub I co-host & I really enjoyed this look at how natural foods aka hippie foods became mainstream. Growing up in the 70s-80s, I could relate to a lot of it. It made me nostalgic for some of my classic cookbooks like The New Moosewood Cookbook from which I cooked this Brown Rice-Spinach Casserole with Sunflower Seeds—pretty hippie-ish food I think & tasty too. 😋Link to review/recipe👇🏻

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DebinHawaii Link to blog post: http://kahakaikitchen.blogspot.com/2020/05/spinach-rice-casserole-from-new.html?... & the cookbook link:
[tagged book]The New Moosewood Cookbook
5y
SamAnne That was the cookbook my mom gave me when I went off to college in 1985... 5y
BarbaraBB Such a great nostalgic post ✌️ 5y
Eggs Oh my that looks so yummy!! 5y
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DebinHawaii
DebinHawaii
Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat | Jonathan Kauffman
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#MarvelousMay #gratitude #keepLitsypositive

Working at home today & ran a quick errand during lunch so I grabbed pizza from a locally-owned place a few blocks from me. I‘m thankful for good close-by pizza that they sell by the slice-actually 2 very generous slices for

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DebinHawaii I‘m also grateful I am almost done with this book as I need to get a dish made & posted by Sunday. I have my dish picked already (a very hippy-ish brown rice casserole from the classic Moosewood cookbook. Hoping to make it tonight for dinner & pics! 👍 5y
Karkar That looks so good 😊 5y
Texreader That looks so downright yummy!!!!! I‘d have that any day of the week 5y
LA_Mead Ooh! That looks so yummy! 5y
JoScho That pizza looks so good! 5y
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DebinHawaii
DebinHawaii
Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat | Jonathan Kauffman
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#MarvelousMay #keeplitsypositive #gratitude

Today/tonight I am thankful for the Fridays of 3-day weekends & for popcorn with (A LOT OF) real butter for dinner. Catching up on a few DVR shows, reading more of the tagged book which is my pick for the virtual foodie book club I co-host & is due on 5/31.😱 Looking through this hippyish cookbook classic to find a dish to make for my bookish pairing. Just a much needed relaxing Friday night.

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JoScho 🖤🖤🖤 5y
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jpmcwisemorgan
jpmcwisemorgan
Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat | Jonathan Kauffman

A couple of years ago a woman named Meghan created the Talk Green to Me bookclub. About a year ago she asked if I could take over. She‘s now left Austin and we were the two regular attendees. I wanted to see if anyone in Austin, TX would be interested in joining me to discuss books on sustainability? The tagged books is our book for April 26th.

GlassAsDiamonds Any chance you‘d be interested in making it International/ online? Not in Austin (clearly! 😊) But sounds like a fascinating book club 😊 7y
jpmcwisemorgan @GlassAsDiamonds I‘ve thought about doing this for a few months but haven‘t really looked that far into it. I could do it on Litsy and perhaps someplace like Goodreads?? I don‘t have WiFi at home so I can‘t do streaming options easily. What do you think? 7y
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Christine
Christine
Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat | Jonathan Kauffman
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As a person who loves to cook and a real food enthusiast (and as a Californian), I really enjoyed this! So many interesting bits of data and anecdotes about how health/organic/natural foods made it to the mainstream. Though I don‘t think you need to be a health food nut to enjoy it; it‘s well-written and engaging, and while I am no vegan or tofu-lover, I still liked the parts about those things. 😛 (Good narration in the audio version, too.)

saresmoore I want to read this in spite of the tofu! 7y
BookNAround @Christine @saresmoore Such side eye for tofu! It‘s not that bad. 😂 (edited) 7y
Christine @saresmoore Its delightfulness is tofu-proof! 7y
Christine @BookNAround 😂 Poor tofu! I promise this book gives it all the respect that non-side-eyers feel it deserves. 😉 7y
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scatterall
scatterall
Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat | Jonathan Kauffman
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Anyone who was a child of brown rice people in the 70s will have special love for this one. And if you want to know where all the kale and "detox" diets came from, this is for you too.