America eats!
on the road with the WPA : the fish fries, box supper socials, and chitlin feasts that define real American food
Willard, Pat.
creator
Writers' Program (U.S.)
text
xxu
New York
Bloomsbury
Distributed to the trade by Macmillan
2008
First U.S. edition.
monographic
eng
ix, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Willard takes readers on a journey into the regional nooks and crannies of American cuisine where WPA writers--including Eudora Welty, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Nelson Algren, and others--were dispatched in 1935 to document the roots of this diverse culinary cuisine. She visits a booyah cook-off in Minnesota, a political feast in Mississippi, a watermelon festival in Oklahoma, and a sheepherders ball in Idaho, to name a few. Featuring recipes and never-before-seen photos, including those from the WPA by Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, and Marion Post Wolcott, America Eats! is a glowing celebration of American food, past and present.
Pat Willard.
Includes indexes.
Cooking, American
History
20th century
Food habits
United States
History
20th century
TX 715 .W661 2008
9781596913622
150625
20200923094911.0