‘Hippie Food’ now available for pre-order
Finally got to hold my first copy of a bound galley for “Hippie Food,” five years after I began working on it. William Morrow will be publishing the book in mid-November, which gives you a few months to pre-order it on Amazon, Powell’s…
Tracking Gentrification
The latest tech boom, as most people know, has had innumerable and sometimes extreme effects on life in the Bay Area: Rents are skyrocketing, longtime businesses are being pushed out, and the character of the city is changing. All of these factors…
In Which I Get My Own Column
As of October 2015, the Chronicle’s food section has given me control of a column, “Forager,” which appears three weeks out of four. My mandate at the paper is to cover the intersection of food and culture — a broad task — and so “Forager”…
A few of my recent pieces
In the midst of tracking down the origins of brewers’ yeast and baking numerous loaves of whole wheat bread, I have also written a few articles: Rainbow Grocery Turns 40 (SF Chronicle). San Francisco’s largest collectively owned worker enterprise, as…
I’m writing a book
I’m thrilled to announce that William Morrow has agreed to publish my book, Hippie Food: How Longhairs, Revolutionaries and Back-to-the-Landers Changed the Way We Eat. I have spent the past 15 years exploring the intersection of food and culture, from regional Chinese specialties newly appearing in…
Jonathan Kauffman
Jonathan Kauffman is a San Francisco-based writer who specializes in restaurants and food culture. He was the restaurant critic at the East Bay Express, Seattle Weekly, and SF Weekly, as well as the San Francisco editor at Tasting Table, before joining the San Francisco Chronicle as a staff writer.
His restaurant reviews and reporting on food issues — avian flu, pig slaughter classes, shark-fin bans — have won numerous awards.
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