Taste of the Nation: The New Deal Search for America's Food

by Camille Begin

During the Depression, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) dispatched scribes to sample the fare at group eating events like church dinners, political barbecues, and clambakes. Its America Eats project sought nothing less than to sample, and report upon, the tremendous range of foods eaten across the United States.

Camille Begin shapes a cultural and sensory history of New Deal-era eating from the FWP archives. From "ravioli, the diminutive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252081706
• ISBN13: 9780252081705
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"