On Jul 25, 7:31 pm, "Jean B." > wrote:
> bulka wrote:
> > A new book - stuff harvested from the WPA's America Eats project.
> > Very mixed. Not useful, but interesting.
>
> > "The recipies contained in this book are to be followed exactly as
> > written. The publisher is not responsible for your specific health or
> > allergy needs that may require medical supervision."
>
> I really enjoyed that book!!! I have since read one realted book
> and will order it and another related book. A good follow-on to
> this, with recipes, is America Cooks by The Browns. In order to
> aid your search, "The Browns" are Cora, Rose, and Bob.
>
> --
> Jean B.

I'm about hafway through, into The South Eats. I start to notice the
references to canned tomatoes, canned corn, ketchup, oleo. Even one
recipie for barbecue sauce, the main ingredient being three bottles of
barbecue sauce.

What happened to my fantasy that there used to be real food here.
This is what? 1940? Pre-interstate highways. And folks are already
buying food from factories. There are stories about home hog
butchering, as if it were something we all did, a then a recipie for
okra gumbo with canned vegetables.

I'm overreacting. I'll assume they mean home-canned. Probably too
much trouble to make (or spell) Worcestershire sauce down to the
farm. The pieces are a mishmash of contemporay reports, reprints,
interviews with the old folks, rural and urban, so the chronology and
geography can get a litte confusing. Plenty of excuses and reasons
explanations for me to be wrong.

Still, I'm a cranky, cynical romantic, and bristle at seeing catsup in
a recipie.

Love