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Does God have a recipe? Find out in Holy Food! Oct 13th

Oct ’23
13
7:00 pm

Join Christina Ward to celebrate Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat:
An American History on Friday, October 13th, 7pm, here at Quimby’s!

Holy Food doesn’t just trace the influence that preachers, gurus, and cult leaders have had on American cuisine. It offers a unique look at the ways spirituality—whether in the form of fringe cults or major religions—has shaped our culture. Christina Ward has gone spelunking into some very odd corners of American history to unearth this fascinating collection of stories and recipes.” — Jonathan Kauffmann, author of Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat

Religious beliefs have been the source of food “rules” since Pythagoras told his followers not to eat beans (they contain souls), Kosher and Halal rules forbade the shrimp cocktail (shellfish are scavengers, or maybe G-d just said “no”). A long-ago Pope forbade Catholics to eat meat on Fridays (fasting to atone for committed sins). Rules about eating are present in nearly every American belief, from high-control groups that ban everything except “air” to the infamous strawberry shortcake that sated visitors to the Oneida Community in the late 1800s. In America, where the freedom to worship the god of your choice and sometimes of your own making, embraced old traditions and invented new ones.

Holy Food looks explores the explosion of religious movements since the Great Awakenings birthed a cottage industry of food fads and at the obscure sects and communities of the 20th Century who dabbled in vague spirituality and used food to both entice and control followers. Ward skillfully navigates between academic studies, interviews, cookbooks, and religious texts to make sharp observations and new insights into American history in this highly readable journey through the American kitchen.

Holy Food features over 75 recipes from religious and communal groups tested and updated for modern cooks. (Dough Gods! Funeral Potatoes! Yogi Tea! Mother F*cker Beans! The Source Family’s infamous Aware Inn Salad!) Also includes over 100 historic black and white images.

Christina Ward is an independent food historian, a Master Food Preserver (Wisconsin), and writer who works in the publishing industry. www.christinaward.net

For more info see: info(at)processmediainc(dot)comwww.processmediainc.com

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Free Event at Quimby’s Bookstore.

Jeremy Kitchen Discusses Mr. Crabby You Have Died with Kirin Wachter-Grene, Oct 14th

Oct ’23
14
7:00 pm

JEREMY KITCHEN

discusses his new book

MR. CRABBY YOU HAVE DIED

with literary scholar

KIRIN WACHTER-GRENE

Saturday, October 14th, 7pm

Free Event at Quimby’s Bookstore

Mr. Crabby You Have Died is the first full-length work by Jeremy Kitchen — a public librarian, former dope fiend, and U.S. Army artillery observer in Desert Storm. Swaying between memoir and fiction, Kitchen lays bare his world through a series of interlocking exorcisms that deny linear time and good taste. Lost years in the Sarin-laced Persian Gulf drift backwards into Detroit’s acid trash landscape, only to corkscrew forward again into a seemingly endless Chicago night of heroin, handguns, and idiot pranksterism.

Comic as it is horrifying, Mr. Crabby You Have Died is a collection of parables about the stupid beauty of youth, the boredom of addiction, and the intensity of dreams.

On Saturday nite, October 14th, Kitchen will discuss all things Mr. Crabby with Kirin Wachter-Grene, a writer and scholar based in Chicago. Wachter-Grene is Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she teaches classes on literature, history, and gender & sexuality studies.

Mr. Crabby You Have Died has been published by First To Knock out of Michigan City, Indiana. First To Knock titles have been featured in outlets such as Los Angeles Review of Books, Hermitix, CrimeReads, The Washington Post, Apocalypse Confidential, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Cinepunx, Tulsa Public Radio/NPR, KCRW Los Angeles, and Weird History. Chris Via of Leaf by Leaf has called First To Knock “one of my favorite presses.”

For more info: www.firsttoknock.com

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Zines

Acid Nun Paintings by Corinne Halbert $10

Every Song I Ever Heard: A Non Chronological Memoir No One Asked for #2 by AP Comfort $8

Unusual Places of the Chicago Suburbs #3 Subdivision Island Formed by Highways by Eric Kammerer $4

Radical Gardening Planting In Protest $6

I Wish For A Gentle Cloud Spirit For Your Day No Matter the Triblations You May Experience $15

Zines by Paul Shortt $10-$20: Performances for Waiting in Line: Performed Alone or In Collaboration with Others, Signs About Art, Don’t Let Adulthood Corrupt You and Other Signs & more.

Mutuo Soccorso! Tim Devin Tells You All About Boston’s Italian Mutual Aid Societies in the Early 1900s $11

Chicago Yesterday vol 22 #8 $15

World Wide Web: Modernism’s Influence on the Design of the Internet by Chayse Walker $10

Life Death and Creatures $7

Daily Affirmations by Ari G. $12

New zines by Sofia Diaz, $5 each: Texas Size IKEA, Chair Hunt

Comics

Grixly #61-#63 by Nate McDonough & friends $3 each

Witch Shit #1 A Comic Book by Chris Resnick $5

Untamed Highway #1 Comics’n’Stories by Noah Snodgrass $5

Cellist #1 by Crabby $8

Novice #1 by Sean McCarthy $10

Flowery #53 by Mel Stringer $10

Comics by Kapka, $15 each: Sketchbook Dump #2, Doobious Odyssey

Graphic Novels

Blankets: 20th Anniversary Edition by Craig Thompson (D&Q) $39.95

Macbeth by William Shakespeare adapted by K. Briggs (Avery Hill) $22.95

Damnation Diaries by Peter Rostovsky (Uncivilized Books) $24.95

Art & Photo Books

Street Art for the Planet by Xavier Tapies (Gingko Press) $19.95

In Chicago and Covered by Some Sort of Vine $20

Essay Books

Catastrophe Time by Gary Zhexi Zhang (Strange Attractor Press) $21.95

Film, TV & Music Books

A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune. An Oral History. by Max Evry $29.99

We’re Not Worthy: From In Living Color to Mr. Show, How ‘90s Sketch TV Changed the Face of Comedy by Jason Klamm $27.99

The White Label Promo Preservation Society vol 2 100 Flop Albums You Ought To Know by Sal Maida, Mitchell Cohen & friends (Hozac Books) $28.99

Fiction

OKPsyche: a novel by Anya Johanna DeNiro (Small Beer Press) $15

Short Stories of Gustav Meyrink vol 2 The Master and Other Stories $13.99

The Wind Knows My Name: A Novel by Isabel Allende $28

Cardboard Clouds by Benjamin Niespodziany $18

Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror & Delight by Shelly Page $12

Food Books

No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant Based Eating by Alicia Kennedy $26.95

Sexxxy

Le Toucher by Dutes Miller $20

Other Stuff

Blueprint Notebook: Technical Innovations (Dokument Press) $7.95

Quimby’s Logo shirts back in stock

Why was Jon Resh finally able to land his first wallride after trying for decades? Because HE WAS WEARING THE CLASSIC QUIMBY’S SHIRT, now all sizes back in stock! It makes dreams real!

The official Quimby’s T-shirt is black shirt features our logo, designed by Chris Ware, printed on black high-quality pre-shrunken Bella + Canvas brand shirts. It’s sweet, simple, and to the point: QUIMBY’S! These shirts were printed locally, by our friends at Strange Cargo.

Get it here.