Cult Food Part 2: The Hippie Health Movement of the 20th Century (Online)
Taught by Sarah Lohman
Sarah Lohman is a culinary historian and the author of the bestselling books Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods and Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine. She focuses on the history of food as a way to access the stories of diverse Americans. Endangered Eating was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and was named one of the Best Books of 2023 by Amazon’s Editors, Food & Wine, and Adam Gopnik on the Milk Street podcast. It was a finalist for the Nach Waxman Prize for Food & Drink Scholarship and winner of the Ohioana Library Book Prize for Nonfiction. Lohman’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and NPR. Lohman has lectured across the country, from the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, DC to The Culinary Historians of Southern California
Location: Online Class
In the second chapter of our explorations of American cults and their effect on our diet, we'll tract the movement of cults from the East Coast to the West, an why LA County and its environs became such a haven for predatory health food scams and new age cults.
We'll cover the rise of Paul Bragg and apple cider vinegar, the influential Source Restaurant, jam band, and Father Yod's many wives; and the food restricting cults of the early 21st century.
This is a live, online class via Zoom. You can also attend Part 1 on October 22nd.
