America Eats!
On the Road With the WPA- The Fish Fries, Box Supper Socials, and Chitlin Feasts That Define Real American Food
Willard, Pat
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
What the Sterns did for road food, Pat Willard does for festive American group eating in this exploration of our national cuisine, with a never-before-published WPA manuscript as her guide.In America Eats! Pat Willard takes readers on a journey into the regional nooks and crannies of American cuisine where WPA writersincluding Eudora Welty, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, and Nelson Algren, among countless otherswere dispatched in 1935 to document the roots of our diverse culinary cuisine. With the unpublished WPA manuscript as her guide, Willard visits the sites of American foods past glory to rediscover the vibrant foundation of Americas traditional cuisine.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.
AUTHOR BIO
Pat Willard is the author of Pie Every Day, A Soothing Broth, and Secrets of Saffron, which was nominated for an IACP award for the best literary cookbook. Shes written for Bon Appetit, Ladies Home Journal, American Heritage, and the Los Angeles Times. She lives in Brooklyn.
BOOK REVIEWS
Who but Pat Willard (A Pie Everyday, Secrets of Saffron) could find a tasty morsel in the Library of Congress? The morsel in question is a WPA project in which a number of authors, famous and unknown alike, were sent on the road to cover the communal culinary orgies to be found at the fairs, feasts and festivals so frequently held across the country, whether in the name of God, politics or pie. What Willard cooks up is an even tastier literary stew that includes (aside from squirrel as an ingredient) not only a lively anthology of the WPA work, but and even livelier narrative of revisits, re-samples, re-assessments, and recipes, all intriguingly spiced with cultural history, quirky local dialogue, and wonderful photographs by WPA greats like Dorthea Lange. One of a kind.Betsy Burton, The Kings English Bookshop, Salt Lake City, Utah[Willards] lovingly researched book, a tribute to regional cooking, is startling, funny and lip-smackingly good. More magazine
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1596913622
ISBN(13-digit): 9781596913622
Dewey Decimal: 394.1/20973
Library of Congress: 2008015815
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 305
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