On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:15:08 GMT, Sqwertz >
wrote:


>I didn't know that had US regional books. I have what I think are
>the complete sets of the foreign countries, circa 1978 or so. Do
>they update these or has it been the same set the whole time?
>
>-sw

It has been the same set the whole time. I forget how many volumes,
but the last ones are the ones based on the regional foods of the US.
I forget when they sent out the last volumes... I know there are about
28 books in the series. I started collecting these books when they
first came out..til the series ended.

The first one in that subgroup was New England, and I think the next
one was the Northwest. I know the South was one area covered, and
also the Southwest(The Great West was the name of the volume). Then
Creole/Acadian, and then the Melting Pot. Oh, and what they called
the Heartland, which was a lot of the eastern seaboard plus some other
states.

There were some good to great authors of those volumes. Eugene Walter
wrote the volume on the south, and from my reading about southern
food, he was highly respected in the south.

Peter Feibleman wrote the volume on Creole/Acadian food, and he came
to the series via being a playright. He did the volume on Spanish
food, and as he had grown up in New Orleans, he did that volume. You
can see his love of the food and culture in that book. From other
readings, I know of his connection to great food and to his dear
friend Lillian Hellman.

Christine