Thanks for the lead! Just ordered Elias's book and will check it out. I'm planning a series of linked short stories here on Substack about a group of Southern women in the mid-1930s, working on the America Eats FWP program. I really enjoy digging into food history.
Sarah, thank you for this deeply researched post. I'm a fiction writer and include food and foodways in my novels (historical, contemporary). I wonder if you're familiar with the America Eats program that was part of the Federal Writers Project (which was part of the WPA) in the late 1930s. The emphasis in that program was entirely regional and produced some interesting ambiguities when it came to "American" food. The links in this summary page are all active: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_Eats For support on Substack, I've had good luck here: https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
Thanks for the lead! Just ordered Elias's book and will check it out. I'm planning a series of linked short stories here on Substack about a group of Southern women in the mid-1930s, working on the America Eats FWP program. I really enjoy digging into food history.
Sarah, thank you for this deeply researched post. I'm a fiction writer and include food and foodways in my novels (historical, contemporary). I wonder if you're familiar with the America Eats program that was part of the Federal Writers Project (which was part of the WPA) in the late 1930s. The emphasis in that program was entirely regional and produced some interesting ambiguities when it came to "American" food. The links in this summary page are all active: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_Eats For support on Substack, I've had good luck here: https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/requests/new