[PDF.49xg] The Food of a Younger Land: A portrait of American food from the lost WPA files

The Food of a Younger Land: A portrait of American food from the lost WPA files

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 | #122645 in Books |  2010-04-06 |  2010-04-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.70 x.99 x5.06l,.73 | File type: PDF | 480 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Charming remembrances|By Henri IV|I liked this book. Like the author, I was born in the late 1940s, and I remember what food was like before McDonald's when hamburgers were thick with good beef, before the highway system when you drove on two-lane roads through all the towns (and got to read Burma Shave signs), before chain restaurants, when you never knew exactly what you wer|From Publishers Weekly|A genuine culinary and historical keepsake: in the late 1930s the WPA farmed out a writing project with the ambition of other New Deal programs: an encyclopedia of American food and food traditions from coast-to-coast similar to the federa

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.

From the New York Times bestselling author who "powerfully demonstrates the defining role food plays in history and culture" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution).

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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Food of a Younger Land: A portrait of American food from the lost WPA files   |  Mark Kurlansky. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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