This book is 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. An anthology with introduction and annotations of the unpublished manuscripts from the last WPA writers project, an exploration of food and eating in America in 1940. This broad assortment of raw, unpublished, 1940 manuscripts, including works by Nelson Algren, Eudora Welty and Zora Neale Hurston reveal a very different America with a different cuisine and a different society. Illustrated with linocuts by the author. - Publisher.
Reviews with the most likes.
The subject matter of this book is really interesting; it delves into a Depression Era WPA project that employed regional writers to catalog and describe local eating habits. Some of these writers became well-known for their fiction in later years (Nelson Algren, for example). With the advent of WWII, the project was shelved. I would have liked more information about each of the regions and additional commentary.
Books
7 booksIf you enjoyed this book, then our algorithm says you may also enjoy these.
