[Sca-cooks] OOP: America Eats!

[Johnna Holloway]

I thought I should mention that anyone interested in the WPA files on
American food should also check out the brand new 2009 volume:

  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 by Mark Kurlansky.
He's the author of Cod, Salt, etc.

  416 pages; Riverhead Hardcover (May 14, 2009)
It's available in bookstores right now so you can check it out in person.

Nelson Algren's writings were also published in a University of Iowa 
Press volume titled oddly enough  America Eats (Iowa Szathmary Culinary 
Arts Series)
   123 pages; Univ of Iowa Pr (May 1992)
This one will have to be interlibrary loaned as copies are scarce and 
expensive.


Johnna

lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
> I just got "America Eats!" in the mail - it was published in hardcover 
> last year and recently came out in paper. I got it via LibraryThing, 
> for which i have to write a review.snipped

> "America Eats!" is about the work of a group of WPA Federal Writers' 
> Project members -snipped
> someone sometimes called Urtatim