The Food of a Younger Land

The Food of a Younger Land

The subject matter of this book is really interesting; it delves into a Depression Era WPA project that employed regional writers to catalog and describe local eating habits. Some of these writers became well-known for their fiction in later years (Nelson Algren, for example). With the advent of WWII, the project was shelved. I would have liked more information about each of the regions and additional commentary.

August 3, 2011