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The food of a younger land : 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 / edited and illustrated by Mark Kurlansky.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking, American--History.
- Cooking, American.
- History.
- Food habits--United States--History.
- Food habits.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2009.
- Summary:
- Using long-forgotten WPA files archived in the Library of Congress, bestselling author Mark Kurlansky paints a detailed picture of Depression Era Americans through the food that they ate and the local traditions and customs they observed when planning and preparing meals.
- Contents:
- The Northeast eats
- The South eats
- The Middle West eats
- The Far West eats
- The Southwest eats.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-387) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781594488658
- 1594488657
- OCLC:
- 328071934
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