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I caught the beginning of this on On Point on NPR last week and thought that it was something that would interest a large number of you.
Food Files from the WPA
In the last years of the 1930s, the last years before interstates and industry turned America into one big, homogenized market, Depression-era writers went out to see what Americans were eating.
They went North, South, East and West. Today, their report reads like a wildly diverse national potluck of very regional, very vivid cuisine.
Spoon bread and burgoo, oyster stew and chicken bog, hush puppies and possum, Johnny cake and hoecake and rabbit and grunion.
This hour, On Point: What we ate before we all ate the same. Well read the great American menu and tuck in.
Joining us in our studio is Mark Kurlansky, bestselling author of many books, including Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World and Salt: A World History. His new anthology is The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food - from the Lost WPA files.
Radio broadcast (and a great photograph!) at http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/05/food-files-from-the-wpa
Food Files from the WPA
In the last years of the 1930s, the last years before interstates and industry turned America into one big, homogenized market, Depression-era writers went out to see what Americans were eating.
They went North, South, East and West. Today, their report reads like a wildly diverse national potluck of very regional, very vivid cuisine.
Spoon bread and burgoo, oyster stew and chicken bog, hush puppies and possum, Johnny cake and hoecake and rabbit and grunion.
This hour, On Point: What we ate before we all ate the same. Well read the great American menu and tuck in.
Joining us in our studio is Mark Kurlansky, bestselling author of many books, including Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World and Salt: A World History. His new anthology is The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food - from the Lost WPA files.
Radio broadcast (and a great photograph!) at http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/05/food-files-from-the-wpa
