Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

America eats! : on the road with the WPA : the fish fries, box supper socials, and chitlin feasts that define real American food Pat Willard.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextNew York : Bloomsbury ; Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2008Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: ix, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781596913622
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TX 715 .W661 2008
Summary: 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.
List(s) this item appears in: SFBS111L_FOOD AND BEVERAGE SERVICES (NCII)
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books DLSU-D HS Learning Resource Center Circulation Fiction TX 715 .W661 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 003850 Available 3HSL2014003850

Includes indexes.

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.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.