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Title The food of a younger land. The Northeast eats : 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 / edited and illustrated by Mark Kurlansky.

Publication Info. New York : Riverhead Books, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 95 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary 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.
Contents Eating in Vermont / Roaldus Richmond -- Vermont foods / Cora A. Moore -- Rhode Island may breakfasts / Walter Hackett -- Dishes New York City's hotels gave America / Allan Ross MacDougall -- New York literary tea / Jerry Felsheim -- The automat / Edward O'Brien -- Italian feed in Vermont / Mari Tomasi -- Long Island rabbit stew: Hasenpfeffer -- North Whitefield, Maine, Game supper / Donald McCormick -- Raising mushrooms in Pennsylvania -- Vermont sugaring-off / Richmond -- An editorial memorandum on clams / James Francis Davis -- Maine clambake / Harry M. Freeman -- New York indoor clam-bake / M. Metevier -- Rhode Island clam chowder / Hackett & Henry Manchester -- Long Island clam chowder -- Maine chowders / Mabel G. Hall -- Oyster stew supreme at Grand Central, New York / MacDougall -- Rhode Island Johnny cakes / Henry Manchester & William Baker -- Beans / James Francis Davis -- Maine baked beans / Hall -- Kenneth Roberts' Maine-style hot buttered rum / McCormick.
Note GMD: electronic resource.
Subject Cooking, American -- New England style -- History.
Food habits -- New England -- History.
Cooking, American.
Added Author Kurlansky, Mark.
United States. Works Progress Administration.
Added Title Northeast eats
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