History

Why Hippie Cook?

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 ...

Thoughts on the Ladies: Mama Pigs, Mama Cows, & Mama Hens

19 July 2009 by Jean Johnson
Food, of course, is not just about consumption. Its story also encompasses production, a subject I've been investigating this summer with students at Washington State University enrolled in my US Food History course. So, how sunny are those eggs on the breakfast table? Or in the really cheap breakfast you found ...