num_pages: 308
description: Simon Majumdar is probably not your typical idea of an immigrant. As he says Im well rested not particularly poor and the only time I ever encounter huddled masses is in line at Costco. But immigrate he did and thanks to a Homeland Security agent who asked if he planned to make it official the journey chronicled in Fed White and Blue was born. In it Simon sets off on a trek across the United States to find out what it really means to become an American using what he knows best: food.Simon stops in Plymouth Massachusetts to learn about what the pilgrims ate (and that playing Wampanoag football with large men is to be avoided); a Shabbat dinner in Kansas; Wisconsin to make cheese (and get sprayed with hot whey); and LA to cook at a Filipino restaurant in the hope of making his in-laws proud. Simon attacks with gusto the food cultures that make up Americabrewing beer farming working at a food bank and even finding himself at a tailgate. Full of heart humor history and of course food Fed White and Blue is a warm funny and inspiring portrait of becoming American.
language: English
title: Fed, White, and Blue: Finding America with My Fork
publisher: Avery