“Hippie Food” Book Talk | SF Main Library

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Published by William Morrow, Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat, is a 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.

Jonathan Kauffman has been writing about food for The Chronicle since 2014 and, before that, for the East Bay Express and the SF Weekly. He focuses on the intersection of food and culture, whether that be profiling chefs, tracking new trends in nonwestern cuisines, or examining the impact of technology on the way we eat.

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