Soup Street

Soup Street is the first memoir of Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry. He shares the events and family history that influenced his dedication to ending the political and economic system that is ravaging our environment and exploits the poor. The book also paints a picture of the transition from a world before interstate highways and chain stores to the sterile violent society we live in today. 

The memoir of Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry. A childhood of living free in America's wilderness was confronted as a teen while standing on a Wasatch Mountain peak looking across once pure valleys of Utah filled with the black smoke from the coal generating stations in Arizona..Any political and economic system willing to desecrate those sacred lands was a system he vowed to dedicate his life to ending.

Something had always stirred in his soul propelling him to follow his heart. To disregard the safety of conformity. From his days experiencing Hopi boys clutching rattle snakes between their teeth to days of torture in a San Francisco, each detail between these pages is his authentic effort to share what led him to help start Food Not Bombs. 

A life shaped by an intelligence officer grandfather who was proud that he directed the world's most deadly bombing campaign torching Tokyo and another grandfather who spent his life as a National Park Ranger. 

Travel with Keith across Mexico, Nigeria, Europe, Asia and the streets of the United States.

This memoir is an honest search to reveal what motivated him to take this unusual journey of independence and freedom.