Jonathan Kauffman

An enlightening 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. Food writer Jonathan Kauffman journeys back more than half a century -- to the 1960s and 1970s -- to tell the story of how a coterie of...