The Food of a Younger Land: A portrait of American food- before the national highway system, before chainrestaurants, and before frozen food, when the nation's food was seasonal,
Format: paperback
ISBN:
0971487676234
Publish date: April 6th 2010
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Food And Drink,
Food,
American History,
Cookbooks,
Cooking,
Foodie,
Food Writing,
Food History
Series: The Food of a Younger Land
Growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, I grew up on a blend of midwestern and Texan food (my parents come from opposite parts of the country) and as much junk food as I could sneak past my mom. (Sorry, mom.) I ate casseroles, Tex-Mex (Mexican food as interpreted by Texans), what my dad called “southern ...
Interesting, I just don't have the patience for it right now.
This was more of a 2 1/2 - some bits were interesting, but there's only so many meat barbecues I'm interested in reading about. Also the library wanted it back - I mostly skimmed the last 1/2 of it. There were some interesting stories about native American foods. The whole time capsule feel of som...
Log in with Facebook 
