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The Food of A Younger Land

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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, regional, and traditional–from the lost WPA files.

An anthology with introduction and annotations of the unpublished manuscripts from the last WPA writers project, an exploration of food and eating in America in 1940. This broad assortment of raw, unpublished, 1940 manuscripts, including works by Nelson Algren, Eudora Welty and Zora Neale Hurston reveal a very different America with a different cuisine and a different society. Illustrated with linocuts by the author.

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Hardcover
Riverhead Books,
ISBN: 978-1594488658

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The Food of A Younger Land

The Food of A Younger Land

Adiobook
Tantor Audio, 2009
ISBN: 9781400181698

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