Jonathan Kauffman is a features writer for the SF Chronicle’s food section, reporting on food culture, such as the history of Burmese restaurants in SF or the effects of gentrification on practically everything we eat. He was a restaurant critic for 11 years in the Bay Area and Seattle as well as the SF editor for Tasting Table. His writing has won both a James Beard and an IACP award. This year, his book Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries changed the way we eat was released to great acclaim.