Edible Secrets: A Food Tour of Classified U.S. History (Real World) - Softcover

"What started, in part, as a serially released zine has been turned into an intense and witty mash-up of classic shoe-leather journalism, culinary storytelling, and call for social justice. In graphic form, the authors dive head-on into public records to detail many unsavory factoids about Uncle Sam -- such as how the police seemingly used a 1968 Chicago-area ice cream theft to silence Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. Hoerger and Partlow's innovative method makes sense on many levels. Millions of pages of declassified docs can't readily be sifted through, the authors' logic goes, so an efficient way to track the federal government's inner workings is to look at a specific cultural institution -- food -- as an angle. This offbeat approach winds up working damned well in a little more than 100 easy-to-read pages, creating a sort of hybrid between Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States and Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals."  —The Village Voice

“Even men in black need to eat, and one has to wonder if a case of the munchies didn’t just give g-men some of their more hair brained ideas. With brilliant illustrations from Nate Powell, Edible Secrets details efforts like the CIA’s foray into mind control (eat popcorn) and their attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro via a poison milkshake. One single box of Jello was enough to convict and sentence two people to death during the red scare and the U.S. Government has taken an active role in promoting Cola across the globe to smash communism and increase corporate profits.”  —Diatribe Media

“ From the government's repeated attempts to poison Fidel Castro's milkshake to Black Panther Fred Hampton's prison sentence for stealing ice cream, the sips of the CIA's secrets leave the reader realizing the enormous amount of activities the feds keep under wraps.”  —Portland Mercury

"This book contains some powerful new disclosures gleaned from FBI files and presented in a politically relevant form. Great research and a good read."  —Jeff Haas, author of The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther 

"Mix ice cream, Jell-O, popcorn, Coca-Cola, and a milkshake with CIA and FBI secret files, some of the American empire’s biggest corporations, and the last ten presidents. What have you got? A recipe for revolutionary change. Read Edible Secrets to find out more. It provides a stimulating taste of the government’s inner workings."  —Robert Meeropol, younger son, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, and Executive Director of the Rosenberg Fund