America Eats!: On the Road with the WPA - the Fish Fries, Box Supper Socials, and Chittlin' Feasts That Define Real American FoodPat 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, and Nelson Algren, among countless others-were dispatched in 1935 to document the roots of our diverse culinary cuisine. America Eats!, as the project was entitled, was never published. With the unpublished WPA manuscript as her guide, Willard visits the sites of American foods past glory to explore whether American traditional cuisine is still as healthy and vibrant today as it was then. |
Contents
The BigHearted FeastFundRaising Dinners | |
The Harvest QueenAgricultural Fairs | |
The Wild ShoresThe Northwest | |
The Groveling SeasonPolitical Gatherings | |
Candidates Barbecue | |
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