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Join Ernest &amp; Hadley Booksellers on Saturday, August 29th as we welcome Mark A. Johnson back to the events stage - this time in the Brick House space! Signing and talk to begin at 11:30 am, discussing his latest -&nbsp;<a href="https://ernestandhadleybooks.com/book/9780820375403?ic_referral=_4ySiwMoR9Sr6J_syr2DNGqkbzIQCgUg8My0jRNMnQcwM-iiB_riH-T0smsxxl48SoRfPOLAcca_K91ot34CxoxKZXXd97vPf2pgbi7aPIuHP4K6fggaK-LkgkbiAkTLz86N" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">American Bacon: The History of a Food Phenomenon</a>&nbsp; A four-century history of a gastronomic phenomenon in the United States
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.
MARK A. JOHNSON, from Milwaukee, earned a PhD in history from the University of Alabama. Previously, he earned an MA from the University of Maryland and BA from Purdue University. He currently teaches at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and is the author of An Irresistible History of Alabama Barbecue: From Wood Pit to White Sauce and Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacle, 1877–1932.
"American Bacon is a delicious read that serves up many crispy, enjoyable, and surprising bits of culinary history. It's a fascinating look at how changing perceptions transformed this particular preserved meat from a lowly staple item into an enduring food celebrity." -Adrian Miller / James Beard Award-winning author

Local Event: Book Signing & Talk with Mark A. Johnson

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Book Signing & Talk with Mark A. Johnson

Join Ernest & Hadley Booksellers on Saturday, August 29th as we welcome Mark A. Johnson back to the events stage - this time in...

Join Ernest &amp; Hadley Booksellers as we welcome Susan Gregg Gilmore to the events stage to launch the paperback edition of her award-winning novel, <a href="https://ernestandhadleybooks.com/book/9781958888940" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush</a>, Tuesday, September 8 at 5:30 PM!
WINNER of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction, young Leonard Bush buries his lost leg and saves his whole East Tennessee town in this winsome and miracle-making novel.
When twelve-year-old Leonard Bush loses his leg in a freak accident, he decides to give his leg a proper burial in the hilltop cemetery of his East Tennessee town. This event somehow sets off a chain of miraculous and catastrophic events—upending the lives of Leonard’s rigidly God-fearing mother, June; his deeply conflicted father, Emmett; and his best friend, Azalea, and her mother, Rose, who is also the town prostitute. While the local Baptist minister passes judgment on events and promises dire consequences, the people of this small community on the banks of Big Sugar move together toward awakening.
Susan Gilmore’s love of storytelling flows naturally from her Tennessee roots. She’s the daughter of a revival preacher’s son, brought up on the land and streams that populate this novel that is, as Appalachian novelist Lee Smith says, a “homespun Pilgrim’s Progress.”

Local Event: Paperback Launch with Susan Gregg Gilmore

Paperback Launch with Susan Gregg Gilmore

Join Ernest & Hadley Booksellers as we welcome Susan Gregg Gilmore to the events stage to launch the paperback edition of her...

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Ernest & Hadley Booksellers, 1928 7th St, Tuscaloosa, AL

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Ernest & Hadley Booksellers, 1928 7th St, Tuscaloosa, AL