Sixties Critique
15 December 2010 by
Jean Johnson
A line I co-opted from Neil Young but so accurate when you think about it. The food industry and the grocers the pushers and us peasants hooked on their grocery carts. Pushing them around the stores in mindless dazes, clutching at things in crinkly packages. Sure that just one ...
Posted in Factory Farming and Conventional Agriculture, Food Politics, Processed Food, Sixties Critique | 5 Comments »
27 October 2010 by
Jean Johnson
There's been more traffic than usual around the hacienda lately. One thing I've noticed is that I can almost tell how hip a person is to eating in a savvy manner by how non-grabby they are with the paper towels.
Case in point: this roll of towels has been on the ...
Posted in Food Politics, Rock & Roll, Sixties Critique, The Pretender-Jackson Browne | 13 Comments »
10 October 2010 by
Jean Johnson
On a recent Facebook thread, someone said, "if what you do--cooking from scratch with garden produce--means being a hippie, I'm all for it." The writer had apparently dismissed the counterculture of the Sixties--hippies--as a group of free loaders mainly interested in drugs, sex, and rock & roll. And why wouldn't ...
Posted in Food Politics, History, Scratch Cooking, Seasonal, Sixties Critique | 2 Comments »
9 October 2010 by
Jean Johnson
I don't have a cake to offer on behalf of John Lennon's 70th birthday. But I think if the man were here he'd welcome my French cut green beans with knowing look through his blue tinted granny glasses.
Honest food from my no chem garden. A celebration of harvest. Putting ...
Posted in Come Together-Lennon, Fall, Flash Cooking, Food Politics, Instant Karma, John Lennon, Preserving, Putting Up Food, Seasonal, Sixties Critique, Video | Add a Comment »