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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

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.

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Corporate Author: United States. Works Progress Administration
Other Authors: Kurlansky, Mark
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Riverhead Books, 2009.
Subjects:
Cooking, American > History.
Food habits > United States > History.
Cooking, American.
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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.
Physical Description:xviii, 397 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 386-387) and index.
ISBN:9781594488658
1594488657
Author Notes:Mark Kurlansky is the author of The Basque History of the World, the New York Times bestseller Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (among the New York Public Library's Best Books of the Year in 1998), as well as A Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry; A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destiny, and several acclaimed works of short fiction and journalism about the Caribbean. He spent seven years as the Caribbean correspondent for the Chicago Tribune.

He lives in New York City.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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