The food of a younger land
Subtitle: a portrait of American food : before the national highway system, before chain restaurants, and before frozen food, when the nation's food was seasonal, regional, and traditional : from the lost WPA files
By: edited and illustrated by Mark Kurlansky.
Contributors: Kurlansky, Mark.; United States. Works Progress Administration.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9781594488658
Subjects: Cookery, American -- History; Food habits -- United States -- History; Cookery, American
Description: Using long-forgotten WPA files archived in the Library of Congress, bestselling author Mark Kurlansky paints a detailed picture of Depression Era Americans through the food that they ate and the local traditions and customs they observed when planning and preparing meals.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Northeast eats.; title: Eating in Vermont / Roaldus Richmond; title: Vermont foods / Cora A. Moore; title: Rhode Island May breakfasts / Walter Hackett; title: Dishes New York City's hotels gave America / Allan Ross MacDougall; title: New York literary tea / Jerry Felsheim; title: The automat / Edward O'Brien; title: New York soda-luncheonette slang and jargon; title: Drugstore lunch / Edward O'Brien; title: Italian feed in Vermont / Mari Tomasi; title: Long Island rabbit stew : Hasenpfeffer; title: North Whitefield, Maine, game supper / Donald McCormick; title: Raising mushrooms in Pennsylvania; title: Vermont sugaring-off / Roaldus Richmond; title: An editorial memorandum on clams / James Francis Davis; title: Maine clambake / Harry M. Freeman; title: New York indoor clam-bake / M. Metevier; title: Rhode Island clam chowder / Walter Hackett, Henry Manchester; title: Long Island clam chowder; title: Maine chowders / Mabel G. Hall; title: Oyster stew supreme at Grand Central, New York / Allan Ross MacDougall; title: Rhode Island Johnny cakes / Henry Manchester, William Baker; title: Beans / James Francis Davis; title: Maine baked beans / Mabel G. Hall; title: Kenneth Roberts' Maine-style hot buttered rum / Donald McCormick; title: The South eats.; title: Mississippi food / Eudora Welty; title: Recipes from prominent North Carolinians / Katherine Palmer; title: Recipes from Arkansas; title: Foods along U.S. 1 in Virginia / Eudora Ramsay Richardson; title: Mississippi African-American recipes; title: Diddy-wah-diddy / Zora Neale Hurston; title: Brown Hotel's Christmas dinner, Louisville, Kentucky, 1940; title: Alabama footwashing at Lonely Dale / Jack Kytle; title: Coca-cola parties in Georgia; title: Delaware's big quarterly; title: South Carolina backwoods barbecue / Genevieve Wilcox Chandler; title: Mississippi barbecue sauce; title: The Possum Club of Polk County, Arkansas; title: Georgia possum and taters; title: Exotic Florida; title: Kentucky ham bone soup; title: Kentucky burgoo; title: Sergeant Saunders' Virginia Brunswick stew / J.B. Cook; title: North Carolina chitterling strut / Katherine Palmer; title: Menu for chitterling strut; title: Mississippi chitlins; title: Kentucky oysters; title: Louisiana "tete de veau" / H. Michinard; title: Kentucky wilted lettuce; title: North Carolina oyster roasts; title: Eufaula, Alabama, oyster roast / Gertha Couric; title: Georgia oyster roast / Louise Jones Dubose; title: South Carolina Pee Dee fish stew / Louise Jones Dubose; title: Fish fry on Levee, Mississippi; title: Mississippi mullet salad; title: The baked fish of Alabama's coast / Francois Ledgere Diard; title: Conch eats conch and grunts, Florida / Stetson Kennedy; title: Josephine's Mississippi crabs; title: Maryland crabs; title: Florida shrimp pilau supper (St. Augustine) / Rose Shepherd; title: South Carolina chicken bog / Louise Jones Dubose; title: Virginia chicken / John W. Thomas; title: The use and manufacture of filé in Mississippi / Jack Bathia; title: Grandma Smith's Mississippi hoecake; title: Florida hush puppies; title: Kentucky spoon bread; title: Mississippi molasses pie; title: Divinity chocolates of Kentucky; title: Alabama cane grindings and candy pullings / Gertha Couric; title: Alabama eggnog / Jack Kytle; title: Kentucky eggnog; title: Old fashioned cocktail; title: Mississippi pear wine / Clarence Kerns; title: The mint julep controversy; title: "Original Kentucky" mint julep (Frankfort Distilleries); title: "Original Kentucky" mint julep (Drake Hotel); title: Mississippi mint juleps; title: The Middle West eats.; title: Nebraskans eat the wieners / Hans Christensen; title: Urban Kansas eats and drinks; title: Sioux and Chippewa food / Frances Densmore; title: Nebraska buffalo barbecue; title: Nebraska Pop Corn Days / M.C. Nelson; title: Wisconsin sour-dough pancakes; title: Nebraska baked beans / J. Willis Kratzer; title: Cooking for threshers in Nebraska / Estella Tenbrink; title: Wisconsin and Minnesota lutefisk; title: Indiana pork cake / Hazel M. Nixon; title: Nebraska lamb and pig fries / H.J. Moss; title: Kansas beef tour / William Lindsay White; title: Comments to Parker T. Van de Mark, November 4, 1941; title: Nebraska eats pheasants; title: Nebraska cooks its rabbits / H.J. Moss; title: Minnesota Booya picnic; title: Indiana persimmon pudding; title: A short history of the American diet / Nelson Algren; title: The Far West eats.; title: Oregon salmon barbecue / Joseph McLaughlin; title: Puget Sound Indian salmon feasts; title: Washington's Geoduck clams; title: A Washington community smelt fry / Carroll Kennedy; title: Montana fried beaver tail / Edward B. Reynolds; title: Oregon wild duck / Joseph McLaughlin; title: Utah salmi of wild duck / William H. Meal; title: Washington wildcat parties / Carroll Kennedy; title: Foraging in Montana / Edward B. Reynolds; title: Montana dulce / Edward B. Reynolds; title: Washington aplets and cotlets; title: Colorado superstitions; title: Washington state hot school lunches; title: The Basques of the Boise Valley / Raymond Thompson; title: Western revolving tables / Edward B. Reynolds; title: Oregon pioneer memories / Sara Wrenn; title: Two recipes from the Bohemia district of Oregon / Joseph McLaughlin; title: An Oregon protest against mashed potatoes / Claire Warner Churchill; title: The potatoes of Kow Kanyon, Oregon / Joseph McLaughlin; title: Depression cake / Michael Kennedy & Edward B. Reynolds; title: Oregon blue ruin / Andrew Sherbert; title: The Southwest eats.; title: Iowa picnic in Los Angeles / John Moste; title: Food a la concentrate in Los Angeles / Don Dolan; title: A Los Angeles sandwich called a taco / Dolan; title: A California grunion fry / Charles J. Sullivan; title: La Merienda in New Mexico; title: Choctaw Indian dishes / Peter J. Hudson; title: Funeral cry feast of the Choctaws; title: Arizona out-of-doors cookery / Edward Parrish Ware; title: Notes on Oklahoma pioneer eating; title: An Arizona menudo party / J. Del Castillo; title: Tucson's menudo party; title: When John Walton became governor of Oklahoma; title: Oklahoma scrambled eggs and wild onions; title: Texas chuck wagon; title: Oklahoma prairie oysters / John M. Okison; title: Oklahoma kush; title: Oklahoma City's famous Suzi-Q potatoes / Lillie Duncan; title: An informal bibliography.; title: Vermont cookbooks; title: Cook books by Texans; title: Partial cook books edited and/or published in Oregon; title: Delaware recipes bibliography; title: Colorado cook books; title: Arkansas books; title: Mississippi cook books; title: Georgia cookbooks; title: Bibliography offering further sources for menus, receipts, and eating habits of Southern California; title: Suggested reading