Re: History of Counterculture Food

On 12 Nov 2003 11:36:09 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ASmith1946) wrote:

>Counterculture food started in America during the late sixties and early
>seventies. 

I don't think so. Note Pastorio's mention of Kellogg and Graham, who
were certainly "counterculture" in America in the 19th century. Here's
an interesting reference:

http://www.foodreference.com/html/artgranola.html

>The counterculture food movement disappeared in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Again, this depends on your definitions. You mention that many 60s
"counterculture" values later became absorbed into the mainstream. And
that current movements having to do with food have shifted to
distribution, corporate farming, food and animal additives, and GM
concerns. Concerns may change or become part of the norm, but
counterculture doesn't disappear; it mutates.

It seems to me there have been food-related "counterculture" movements
probably since the first cave dweller stuck a raw haunch of antelope
on the fire and tried to convince its family that cooked was good. 

That is, counterculture food movements aren't a 1960s (or 1860s)
phenomenon, but an continuum  of changing positions with regard to
nutrition, health, economics, religion, agriculture, and many of the
other factors you mention.