Dishwasher Pete

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Dishwasher Pete is the pen name for Pete Jordan, author of the popular Dishwasher zine as well as the forthcoming book of the same title and whose goal was to wash dishes in every state in America. For more than a decade, he moved from city to city, state to state, busting suds in restaurants, hospitals, cafeterias, ski resorts, camps, hippie communes, a fish cannery, an offshore oil rig, a dinner train and just about anywhere where dishes were dirty.

The fifteen issues of the Dishwasher zine are now out of print but a memoir by Dishwasher Pete of his years pearl diving will be published by HarperPerennial in 2007.

Dishwasher Pete has contibuted to the following episodes of the radio program This American Life:

His writing also appeared on the Open Letters website:

Dishwasher Pete also volunteered as a healthy human guinea pig in drug experiments, and he contributed short articles to the zine Guinea Pig Zero: A Journal for Human Research Subjects.

Quotes

"Just keep washing." -- Bob Dole, in response to Dishwasher Pete asking his advice for the dishwashers of America. [link]

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