02/04/2025
NEW BOOK from our Nickel Dinner imprint:
‘FREE FOOD: earth eating’ by Andrew Barton ().
A counterculture cookbook for these strange times.
Mixing memoir and loose recipes, this book intends to inspire a “free” approach to cooking and eating. A literally down-to-earth approach – as in: food grown, purchased, cooked, and consumed with an awareness of the Earth. A reflection on an idealistic, optimistic, possibility-fueled young adulthood spent around tables of co-op houses and would-be communes. An appreciation for groovy, light-hearted, no-rules cuisine.
Hippies of the past dreamt of a better world from their kitchens, and today we can do the same as we cook and eat in more informed, conscious, intentional ways.
This book is a love letter to Eugene, Oregon – a small city where this free spirited food and mindset have long been commonplace – and takes a close look at the formative food memories that make us hunger for another taste.
Free Food is a not-done-dreaming exploration of alternative ways of living in the now.
Foreword by Jonathan Kauffman ()
Contributing essays by Nicole Lavelle () and Lola Milholland ()
Original drawings by Sam Farrell ()
Title page lettering by Adam Zeek ()
Featuring additional artists and photographers, whose work will be highlighted in a future post.
312 pages. Offset printed (spot color, all green) and bound in Portland, Oregon by Charles Overbeck of Eberhardt Press (). A limited printing. Available now: link in bio! Thank you, as ever, for reading.
