A Portrait of American Food--Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food Was Seasonal
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The subject matter of this book is really interesting; it delves into a Depression Era WPA project that employed regional writers to catalog and describe local eating habits. Some of these writers became well-known for their fiction in later years (Nelson Algren, for example). With the advent of WWII, the project was shelved. I would have liked more information about each of the regions and additional commentary.