The Food of a Younger Land : : a Portrait of American Food : Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food was Seasonal, Regional, and Traditional : From the Lost WPA Files
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Using long-forgotten WPA files archived in the Library of Congress, bestselling author Mark Kurlansky paints a detailed picture of Depression Era Americans through the food that they ate and the local traditions and customs they observed when planning and preparing meals.
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If You Want to Browse about Historic Foodways submitted by sdunav on June 22, 2012, 9:21am This is an interesting, but very uneven collection of articles and recipes and brief descriptions of food in different regions of the US in the 1930's. The Midwest isn't covered very well (all there is about Michigan is a bit on pioneers and lumberjack camps), but there are some very interesting passages from the South and New England. It's a good book for browsing, if you feel like reading about the history of Florida shrimp pilau, Boston baked beans, or lutefisk in Minnesota
PUBLISHED
New York : Riverhead Books, 2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: 397 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781594488658
1594488657
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Kurlansky, Mark.
United States.
SUBJECTS
Cooking, American -- History.
Food habits -- History.
Cooking, American.