Chicago Bark + Grass Creators & Contributors - 1990s Vegan Cookzine

Bark + Grass Number 2: revolution supper - 90's archive zine Bark + Grass Number 2 is a vegan cookzine created by Posi Kim and her friends of Positive Press sometime between 1993-1995 in Chicago, IL. It's part of a series of cookzines that Kim + crew released on vegan cooking, often distributing at local music festivals around the MidWest from IL to OH. Bark + Grass leaned heavy into feminism and animal rights, and this edition of Bark + Grass is no exception. It includes excerpts from Fight Me by Daisy Rooks, who wrote a piece on the link between animal rights and feminism inspired by a book called The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J Adams (well worth the read btw!). Rooks is currently a professor of sociology and Positive Kim is out there too. I mention because it's easy to look at older zines and see them as relics of the past we can learn from when the folks who made these works possible are still out there, often still teaching and sharing their wisdom with the world. Anyway, Bark + Grass volume two includes European measurement conversions, a list of ingredients and why they are considered animal abuse when used, a list of alternatives to choose instead, and even a list of source materials in the back. Most of the recipes come from Posi Kim herself, some from friends, some jacked directly from cookbooks with updates and edits that the crew found pertinent to share. The cookzine covers everything from Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner meals to Baked Goods and a special section dedicated to Tofu + Tempeh cooking. Many of these recipes are still gold (I've made a few myself! - The Pancake recipe is a go to in my house!) and you can even find some on the internet credited directly to this cookzine. I don't share any interior pages for zines where I personally have not been granted consent to do so, so apologies for anyone who wants to read more here. Pretty sure a full copy can be found on the internet archive though! There's also an abbreviated copy archived at Smith College. Break the System Archive has over 1000 items of radical ephemera from posters and flyers to self published works and of course, zines. If you know anything about this zine, (created in the Chicago area in the 1990s), or are one of the authors/ contributors I would love to hear from you!