The Food of a Younger Land : A portrait of American food from the lost WPA files (Paperback)

from AJBraithwaite

A book that takes a while to read and digest, but it is deeply interesting if you like finding out about traditional, local food. It makes use of materials gathered towards the end of the Depression years and at the beginning of the Second World War for a Works Progress/Project Administration (WP...

from Marlissa

This book is a compilation of documents on regional foods of the U.S. that were originally written for the Works Progress Administration during the late 1930s. It was part of the Federal Writers' Project, with the goal of providing work for writers as well as serving the public interest by docume...

from majorbabs

We may not have had fast food until the last half of the 20th century, but we had interesting, regional food and this book shows us, historically, how food has evolved in various sections of the U.S. Made up of stories compiled by Works Progress Administration writers in the 30s and 40s, it was a...

from snash

The Kindle version that I downloaded only included the Northeast section. It consists of WPA writer's project writings about food and food related customs in the 1940's, just before any serious influx of fast foods and National advertising. I found it more readable and interesting than I might ha...

from TimmyP

One of my favorite Kurlansky books. The author went through some old archives of a government sponsored project right before World War II broke out. Writers from all over the USA were commissioned to collect recipes and write descriptive articles on how people in different regions cooked food; wh...