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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I just got back from Scotland and got to get into my pictures of landscapes and puffins.

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

1) This one, Princess Bride 2) Duck, Apples, Sweet Potatoes for pre #HATM dinner.

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

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!

The crowd gathered for the lunch and talk.

A Newspaper Article. “One of the favorite outdoor sports in Greenville now is chicken brissil,” says Birmingham News in 1930

Newspapers from Greenville Advocate in Alabama in 1910 and 1913

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

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

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

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

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

#HATM I started midway through, so please excuse me if someone mentioned it, but the author James Fenimore Cooper is of Cooperstown.

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Lincoln ended up with some pretty weird neighbors in the bibliography.

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Thank you UTC History Department and UTC History Club for inviting me to smoke some ribs for the end-of-the-year Porkorama.

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Two years ago tonight, my students and I put a whole hog in a smoker. Tonight, I’m rubbing down ribs to cook for a student group and end-of-the-year party.

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I’m headed to Puerto Rico for the American Studies Association Annual Meeting! This panel is stacked!

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I’m hitting the road this weekend. I’ll have two days in Birmingham capped off with this talk!

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

No I’m not drinking on Monday morning (yet) but I forgot to post last night’s wine and reading material. I’m hoping to integrate this into my thoughts on bacon and sex. I’ve been looking forward to it for a long time, and so far, it pairs excellently with the weather and this wine.

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

“You’re making meringue, in this economy??”

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

UTC Walker Center Book Club next week.

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I’ll take fifty degrees for patio time with cat, tea, and books.

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I’m at a Starbucks in a sweater. I’ve got reading glasses, coffee, and a book. I’m going to a play in an hour. I am 1998’s intelligentsia.

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Can’t wait to read Jori Lewis’s Slaves for Peanuts.

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

What are you all reading these days?

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

If he doesn’t beg for food, I’m insulted. This is Frank Stitt’s low country red rice with a piece of red snapper pan cooked in bacon grease.

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I’m getting back to work today but capping it off with the rest of this book and a sidecar. Also, this book makes much more sense than a world in which white men “rawdog” their flights to invite pain amid otherwise safe and comfortable lives. What about the people who don’t need to invite pain?

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Why do I even have a phone anymore?

It’s a screen shot of recent calls, and they’re all junk telemarketers.

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

We drank some extinct grapes tonight.

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I’m at the stage of Bacon Book where I need to do all the formatting for submission!

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

After I reassured him that we got grades turned in and won’t be on the Dean’s shit list, he went back to sleep.

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Update: and now the cat has joined the party.

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

A book and a Paso Robles Cabernet.

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

This place is so charming in winter… time to grade.

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I have so much grading to do that. I made Frank Stitt’s seven layer coconut cake instead.

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

He woke up, saw the snow, and chose a different option.

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

We’ve got a mild night so it’s patio wine and Postel’s Equality

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

He’s already done the reading, so he’s just gonna nap while I get work done.

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I took classes with Professor Farr at Purdue. After all these years, I thought I’d give this one a try.

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

These new-to-me books arrived today. I’ve read the TJJL book and the Matejowsky book, but I now needed copies of my own to mark up and annotate. As for James, anyone out there in my world read it yet?

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

So it will have questions that are more like comments?

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I have an assistant as I finally settle in to read this.

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I write about race, spectacle, and food!

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Mark A. Johnson @baconscholar.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

In the spirit of introducing ourselves on here, I have two books— one trade and one scholarly publication. Yes, there’s a theme that connects these works…

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