A number of writers, including Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, and Nelson Algren, were dispatched all across America to chronicle the eating habits, traditions, and struggles of local people. In the 1930s, with the country gripped by the Great Depression and millions of Americans struggling to get by, FDR created the Federal Writers' Project under the New Deal as a make-work program for artists and authors.
It helped form the distinct character, attitudes, and customs of those who ate it. Award-winning New York Times-bestselling author Mark Kurlansky takes us back to the food and eating habits of a younger America: Before the national highway system brought the country closer together before chain restaurants imposed uniformity and low quality and before the Frigidaire meant frozen food in mass quantities, the nation's food was seasonal, regional, and traditional. A remarkable portrait of American food before World War II, presented by the New York Times-bestselling author of Cod and Salt.
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