{"product_id":"hippie-food-how-back-to-the-landers-longhairs-and-revolutionaries-changed-the-way-we-eat-9780062437310","title":"Hippie Food: How Back-To-The-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFood 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, \u003cem\u003eHippie Food\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA slick mix of gonzo playfulness, evocative detail, skillful pacing, and elegant writing, \u003cem\u003eHippie Food\u003c\/em\u003e is a lively, engaging, and informative read that deepens our understanding of our culture and our lives today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKauffman, Jonathan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eA line cook turned journalist, Jonathan Kauffman is an International Association of Culinary Professionals and James Beard Award-winning staff writer at the \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle.\u003c\/em\u003e He served as the restaurant critic at the \u003cem\u003eEast Bay Express, Seattle Weekly, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSF Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e for more than a decade, and has contributed regularly to \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco\u003c\/em\u003e magazine\u003cem\u003e, Lucky Peach, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWine \u0026amp; Spirits.\u003c\/em\u003e His articles have also been anthologized in several editions of \u003cem\u003eBest Food Writing.\u003c\/em\u003e A native of Indiana, he now lives in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50526802870546,"sku":"9780062437310","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_84a53daf-1b20-49e7-92d0-e3f796c098bd.jpg?v=1731283675","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hippie-food-how-back-to-the-landers-longhairs-and-revolutionaries-changed-the-way-we-eat-9780062437310","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}