A quick survey on 1960's gastromony

Food is more than sustanance. Food includes family meals which structure a family's time management. The role of the Host or Hostess is embellished by selection of novel or exotic ingredients. Health is directly impacted by the intake of calories and preservatives. Fast food and Convenience foods had a major impact on the American home of the Sixties. And we'll examine that today.


Dining Through the Decades: Julia Child and the Food of the 1960s by David Leite
The late '60s brought social unrest, growing tension over the Vietnam War and hippies with an unquenchable hunger for unprocessed, proletarian food made from scratch. Derogatorily referred to as granola-crunching, Birkenstock-wearing kind of folk, they eschewed anything prepackaged and began making their own products such as fresh bread, peanut butter, tahini and hummus. MORE

Space Food
The first brave souls (aka, guinea pigs) to taste something that resembled food pills were the astronauts. In the early 1960s, NASA contacted several leading food conglomerates hoping to come up with new and innovative ways of feeding astronauts on long-duration space missions. MORE

Convenience Foods in the U.K.
The 1960s saw the start of a trend that has gradually transformed British eating, with the popularising of the cooking of other countries. MORE

No Fried Rice for You! Qui Nguyen
My moms, though uber-yellow, is a master of the high-cholesterol culinary arts. Trained by beautiful black ladies to flavor her veggies with spice and her meats with soul, my mother’s cooking is 100 percent Southern-style with a touch of Asian flave. How did a teeny little Vietnamese lady learn to fry so well? More