Mark A. Johnson
@baconscholar.bsky.social
I am an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Author of American Bacon: The History of a Food Phenomenon.
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Mark A. Johnson
@baconscholar.bsky.social
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American Bacon
In American Bacon, Mark A. Johnson asks (and answers) a seemingly simple question: How has bacon overcome centuries of religious prohibition, cultural contem...
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I’m way too excited to work!
My book, American Bacon, is now available for presale!
For authors, presale can make or break a book, so please tell your local book shop to carry it! Please order it for your university and public library!
#foodstudies #food #bacon
www.ugapress.org/978082037540...
My book, American Bacon, is now available for presale!
For authors, presale can make or break a book, so please tell your local book shop to carry it! Please order it for your university and public library!
#foodstudies #food #bacon
www.ugapress.org/978082037540...
Found it!!
50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald began her final voyage across Lake Superior. Less than 36 hours later she vanished.
Five decades later "Why?" is still a mystery.
Starting tomorrow, I'll tell the story of her final hours on the lake - as they happened.
Five decades later "Why?" is still a mystery.
Starting tomorrow, I'll tell the story of her final hours on the lake - as they happened.
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Found it!!
Is anyone out there live-posting the final voyage of the #EdmundFitzgerald?
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Is anyone out there live-posting the final voyage of the #EdmundFitzgerald?
This is effectively the point of Bart Elmore’s work on Coca Cola. We all effectively subsidize the business model.
Ai companies want to use our electricity? Ok. They can pay triple rates offset all our bills.
Ai companies want to use our water? Ok. They can subsidize infrastructure construction and maintenance.
Ai companies want to use our land? Ok. They can pay taxes high enough to fund affordable housing.
Ai companies want to use our water? Ok. They can subsidize infrastructure construction and maintenance.
Ai companies want to use our land? Ok. They can pay taxes high enough to fund affordable housing.
October 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This is effectively the point of Bart Elmore’s work on Coca Cola. We all effectively subsidize the business model.
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It's been 70 years since Emmett Till, a Black teenager visiting relatives in Mississippi, was lynched by a mob of white men.
70 years after Emmett Till's murder, Mississippi museum acquires gun used to kill him
It's been 70 years since Emmett Till, a Black teenager visiting relatives in Mississippi, was killed by white men because he whistled at a white woman. Now the gun used in his death is in a museum.
n.pr
August 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
It's been 70 years since Emmett Till, a Black teenager visiting relatives in Mississippi, was lynched by a mob of white men.
I’m way too excited to work!
My book, American Bacon, is now available for presale!
For authors, presale can make or break a book, so please tell your local book shop to carry it! Please order it for your university and public library!
#foodstudies #food #bacon
www.ugapress.org/978082037540...
My book, American Bacon, is now available for presale!
For authors, presale can make or break a book, so please tell your local book shop to carry it! Please order it for your university and public library!
#foodstudies #food #bacon
www.ugapress.org/978082037540...
American Bacon
In American Bacon, Mark A. Johnson asks (and answers) a seemingly simple question: How has bacon overcome centuries of religious prohibition, cultural contem...
www.ugapress.org
August 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I’m way too excited to work!
My book, American Bacon, is now available for presale!
For authors, presale can make or break a book, so please tell your local book shop to carry it! Please order it for your university and public library!
#foodstudies #food #bacon
www.ugapress.org/978082037540...
My book, American Bacon, is now available for presale!
For authors, presale can make or break a book, so please tell your local book shop to carry it! Please order it for your university and public library!
#foodstudies #food #bacon
www.ugapress.org/978082037540...
Do you chicken brissil? If you are from Greenville in Butler County, Alabama, you do.
It’s a smoked chicken with an emphasis on a tangy vinegar sauce.
I was so glad to talk on Alabama barbecue to the Butler County Historical and Genealogical Society. It was such a great audience!
It’s a smoked chicken with an emphasis on a tangy vinegar sauce.
I was so glad to talk on Alabama barbecue to the Butler County Historical and Genealogical Society. It was such a great audience!
July 28, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Do you chicken brissil? If you are from Greenville in Butler County, Alabama, you do.
It’s a smoked chicken with an emphasis on a tangy vinegar sauce.
I was so glad to talk on Alabama barbecue to the Butler County Historical and Genealogical Society. It was such a great audience!
It’s a smoked chicken with an emphasis on a tangy vinegar sauce.
I was so glad to talk on Alabama barbecue to the Butler County Historical and Genealogical Society. It was such a great audience!
*Lunch Exists Everyday *
Panera:
Panera:
a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open and a lamp in the background .
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open and a lamp in the background .
media.tenor.com
July 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
*Lunch Exists Everyday *
Panera:
Panera:
July 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I pulled this from some jerk over on Threads,
While I don’t know the race of the server, I thought this was a good time for a reminder that tipping culture is unique to the United States and a legacy of systemic racism! #foodstudies #food #history
While I don’t know the race of the server, I thought this was a good time for a reminder that tipping culture is unique to the United States and a legacy of systemic racism! #foodstudies #food #history
July 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I pulled this from some jerk over on Threads,
While I don’t know the race of the server, I thought this was a good time for a reminder that tipping culture is unique to the United States and a legacy of systemic racism! #foodstudies #food #history
While I don’t know the race of the server, I thought this was a good time for a reminder that tipping culture is unique to the United States and a legacy of systemic racism! #foodstudies #food #history
Does anyone else find there term “late-stage capitalism” overly optimistic?
July 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Does anyone else find there term “late-stage capitalism” overly optimistic?
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Nahhh. Let’s talk about Ohio State Buckeyes. Specifically wrestling.
July 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Nahhh. Let’s talk about Ohio State Buckeyes. Specifically wrestling.
Does Hoovervilles count?
And for whom was Levittown named?
Just listened to an hour and a half podcast of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz with Adam Neumann (WeWork guy) and they explain why they've invested nearly half a billion into him saying a real estate guy they know said: "Only 2 people have successfully branded real estate: Neumann and Trump."
July 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Does Hoovervilles count?
Yeah, I mean, the entire East Coast is branded real estate…
Pennsylvania was a real estate transaction.
July 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Yeah, I mean, the entire East Coast is branded real estate…
I’ll post the start of the thread, too.
i have been stuck on JD Vance's claremont speech for almost two weeks now because it is structurally identical to roger taney's opinion for the court in dred scott
July 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I’ll post the start of the thread, too.
This is some pretty dangerous language from Vance echoing, of all people, Taney in his Dred Scot decision. Check out @jamellebouie.net entire thread for sure, but wanted to highlight this part.
The central question: Who is entitled to the rights of citizenship?
The central question: Who is entitled to the rights of citizenship?
July 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This is some pretty dangerous language from Vance echoing, of all people, Taney in his Dred Scot decision. Check out @jamellebouie.net entire thread for sure, but wanted to highlight this part.
The central question: Who is entitled to the rights of citizenship?
The central question: Who is entitled to the rights of citizenship?
I’m just in my office knee-deep in AI-related honor code offenses and looking out the window watching a dog crap in my yard while the owner stares at her phone.
Like, what are we even doing.
Like, what are we even doing.
July 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I’m just in my office knee-deep in AI-related honor code offenses and looking out the window watching a dog crap in my yard while the owner stares at her phone.
Like, what are we even doing.
Like, what are we even doing.
So I visited Cape Ann as a kid in the summer. Now, my best bud from college lives on the South shore in Plymouth. I love Massachusetts.
My buddy gets up at 5 am to get swordfish right off the boat. #hatm
My buddy gets up at 5 am to get swordfish right off the boat. #hatm
July 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
So I visited Cape Ann as a kid in the summer. Now, my best bud from college lives on the South shore in Plymouth. I love Massachusetts.
My buddy gets up at 5 am to get swordfish right off the boat. #hatm
My buddy gets up at 5 am to get swordfish right off the boat. #hatm
My great-great Uncle Fritz lived on the north shore, Manchester, and worked in Gloucester. We visited him three summers in a row- 97-98-99. I read it as an 11-year-old in one sitting.
He knew the guys. Now, he was also a storyteller, but he probably did “know” these guys. #hatm
He knew the guys. Now, he was also a storyteller, but he probably did “know” these guys. #hatm
If you have not read the book I really recommend it. It’s a pretty easy read and really interesting. #HATM
July 21, 2025 at 1:29 AM
My great-great Uncle Fritz lived on the north shore, Manchester, and worked in Gloucester. We visited him three summers in a row- 97-98-99. I read it as an 11-year-old in one sitting.
He knew the guys. Now, he was also a storyteller, but he probably did “know” these guys. #hatm
He knew the guys. Now, he was also a storyteller, but he probably did “know” these guys. #hatm
We have pan-seared swordfish, fried eggplant, and roasted corn. Also homemade baguette and basque red wine.
These will be slathered in olive oil, butter, garlic and oregano. #hatm
These will be slathered in olive oil, butter, garlic and oregano. #hatm
July 21, 2025 at 12:28 AM
We have pan-seared swordfish, fried eggplant, and roasted corn. Also homemade baguette and basque red wine.
These will be slathered in olive oil, butter, garlic and oregano. #hatm
These will be slathered in olive oil, butter, garlic and oregano. #hatm
Okay, #hatm, I’m obsessed with this movie for a few reasons.
1. I spent three summers in between the release of this book and the release of this movie on the North Shore, about twenty minutes from Gloucester.
2. I love swordfish so much.
3. Diane Lane
1. I spent three summers in between the release of this book and the release of this movie on the North Shore, about twenty minutes from Gloucester.
2. I love swordfish so much.
3. Diane Lane
July 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Okay, #hatm, I’m obsessed with this movie for a few reasons.
1. I spent three summers in between the release of this book and the release of this movie on the North Shore, about twenty minutes from Gloucester.
2. I love swordfish so much.
3. Diane Lane
1. I spent three summers in between the release of this book and the release of this movie on the North Shore, about twenty minutes from Gloucester.
2. I love swordfish so much.
3. Diane Lane
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Discover how smoked salmon evolved from a preservation method to a global luxury. Explore Victorian recipes, royal dining, and modern brunch traditions. #Food #FoodHistory #FoodCulture #SmokedSalmon #LuxuryFood
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Smoked Salmon’s Journey to Refinement
Before it adorned silver trays and brunch buffets, smoked salmon was survival food. Travel through time—from ancient smokehouses to Champagne brunches—and taste the story of refinement.
foodculturebites.com
July 19, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Discover how smoked salmon evolved from a preservation method to a global luxury. Explore Victorian recipes, royal dining, and modern brunch traditions. #Food #FoodHistory #FoodCulture #SmokedSalmon #LuxuryFood
#FlipboardUserGroup
foodculturebites.com/smoked-salmo...
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I picked up swordfish for tonight’s #hatm, is that okay?
July 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I picked up swordfish for tonight’s #hatm, is that okay?
During the process of writing the Bacon Book, everyone who read it was like, “This is like the cod book.”
I hated the cod book…
Until I read the cod book.
Read Kurlansky’s Cod Book!
I hated the cod book…
Until I read the cod book.
Read Kurlansky’s Cod Book!
July 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
During the process of writing the Bacon Book, everyone who read it was like, “This is like the cod book.”
I hated the cod book…
Until I read the cod book.
Read Kurlansky’s Cod Book!
I hated the cod book…
Until I read the cod book.
Read Kurlansky’s Cod Book!
1. Townsend, Malintzin’s Choices
2. Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
3. Homemade Focaccia, Caprese
2. Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
3. Homemade Focaccia, Caprese
And that brings us to tonight’s #HATM questions:
1) What are your favorite books on Indigenous history?
2) What are your favorite books on colonial history?
3) And finally, what is on the menu at your home tonight?
1) What are your favorite books on Indigenous history?
2) What are your favorite books on colonial history?
3) And finally, what is on the menu at your home tonight?
July 7, 2025 at 2:09 AM
1. Townsend, Malintzin’s Choices
2. Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
3. Homemade Focaccia, Caprese
2. Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
3. Homemade Focaccia, Caprese