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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 Willard, Pat.

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New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2008.

Cooking, American -- History -- 20th century.

Food habits -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0829/2008015815-b.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0829/2008015815-d.html

9781596913622 (hardcover) :

1596913622 (hardcover)

ix, 305 p. : ill. ; 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.

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