Book count: 81
America Eats! by: Pat Willard
Non-fiction: food, history 290 pages 2008
This book is the story of one writers attempt to find the foods and celebrations that were written about in an unpublished book called " America Eats!" that was being written during the Great Depression as part of the WPA. The WPA was the works progress administration that was one of the groups set up by the government to provide jobs to people during the Great Depression. The America Eats! project was an attempt to create a book on the different regional dishes and celebrations of America without being a cookbook or about foreign foods. As such, it was a very limited look as American food including much off the prejudices of the day. Also as it wasn't finished a large part of the work was never sent in to Washington, and is either in state or local archives, in the writer's possession, or lost. Working with what was in the national archives the author found a number of the events still happening and a number long gone. She included some recipes and stories of her own.
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