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Recent Reporting and Features
Since leaving the San Francisco Chronicle in the summer of 2019 to move to Portland, I have written for a variety of national publications, including the following stories: How Darrell Corti Became a Tastemaker in California Food and Wine (LA Times): Profile of the owner of Sacramento’s legendary grocery store There’s a New Source for...
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The Reviews Are Out!
March 2019 update: Hippie Food is a finalist for a James Beard Award! Named by the New Yorker, Smithsonian, and Book Riot as one of the best food books of 2018. Shortlisted for the 2018 Art of Eating Prize for best food book of the year. New York Times: In his rave review for the New York Times, Omnivore’s Dilemma author...
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‘Hippie Food’ in the Media
UPDATE: When it came out in January 2019, Hippie Food was named a notable new paperback by the New York Times Book Review and San Francisco Chronicle. Just a few of my media appearances for Hippie Food: Here and Now: On the NPR show, broadcast nationally, I talk to Jeremy Hobson about brown bread, back-to-the-landers and LSD....
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Summer-Fall 2019 Appearances
Upcoming public appearances: July 25, 2019: Hippie Food dinner and talk at Soil Born Farms, near Sacramento. Benefit for the Sacramento Public Library Foundation. Tickets here. October 3, 2019, 8:30 p.m.: Hippie Food talk at the Provender Alliance 2019 conference, Hood River, Ore. -
If ‘leaving SF’ essays are mandatory, here is mine
Since 2010, my husband and I have lived in a third-floor apartment that looks out onto the Panhandle, the twin spires of St. Ignatius, and a drug dealer who refuses to be chased off his turf. For most of those years, George lived one floor beneath us. George was gay, I’m pretty sure, around his...
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‘Hippie Food’ is available for pre-order
William Morrow is publishing “Hippie Food” on January 23, 2018, which gives you a few weeks to pre-order it on Amazon, Powell’s or IndieBound. While the book isn’t available for Christmas or Hanukkah gifts, it’s going to arrive close enough that you could get away with giving a book promise. If you have access to a printer —...
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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 well as my favorite grocery store on the planet, is thriving without having sacrificed the values...
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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 San Francisco to the tech industry’s attempts to disrupt our eating habits. The idea for the book...
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On the Radio
January 2015 was my month to pontificate. For the January 31 episode of KCRW’s Good Food, Evan Kleiman interviewed me about meal-sharing websites, underground dinners for the Uber age. (You can read my November 2014 article on the phenomenon here.) I also drank beer and talked restaurant criticism with Almanac brewer Jesse Friedman for the January 7 episode of his podcast, Brewer’s...
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