Author Event: American Bacon
Schedule
Sat, 16 May, 2026 at 02:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
606 S. Weinbach Ave. #B, Evansville, IN, United States, Indiana 47714 | Evansville, IN
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Join us for a talk with Castle grad, Mark A. Johnson, about his newest book, American Bacon!About the Book: In American Bacon, Mark A. Johnson asks (and answers) a seemingly simple question: How has bacon overcome centuries of religious prohibition, cultural contempt, and dietary advice to become a twenty-first-century culinary and cultural powerhouse? Starting in early modern Britain and tracing the story of bacon through the colonial era, the Civil War, the Progressive Era, modern fad diets, and the emerging craft bacon industry, Johnson provides a new perspective on some familiar American narratives. More than a story of production, marketing, and consumption, Johnson argues, this cultural history connects bacon to race, class, and gender while also illuminating major historical forces, such as migration, warfare, urbanization and suburbanization, reform movements, cultural trends, and globalization. For Johnson, bacon’s story from “most dangerous food in the supermarket” to pop culture and gastronomic phenomenon reflects the cultural values of a nation.
Books are available for preorder through the link below
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