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

• Tác giả: Mark Kurlansky
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 1594488657
• ISBN-13: 978-1594488658
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 394.120973 Eating, drinking; using drugs
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York : Riverhead Books, 2009.
• Mô tả vật lý: xviii, 397 p. : , ill. ; , 24 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Xã hội, kinh tế, luật
• ID: 93575
• Chủ đề: 1. Cooking, American--History; 2. Cooking, American; 3. Food habits--History--United States

Includes bibliographical references (p. 386-387) and index.

Tóm tắt

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.