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America Eats (Iowa Szathmary Culinary Arts Series) by Nelson Algren is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Think of Nelson Algren, and many images come to mind—Chicago's unappreciated genius, champion of the poor and disenfranchised, lover of Simone de Beauvoir, author ofThe Man with the Golden Arm and A Walk on the Wild Side—but the author of a cookbook? Here it is: the never-before-published America Eats, a delightful, thoroughly entertaining look at who we are and what we love to eat. The origins of America Eats are as fascinating as the book itself. In the late 1930s Nelson Algren joined such writers as Saul Bellow, Richard Wright, Margaret Alexander, and Arna Bontemps in the employ of the Illinois Writers Project, a branch of the federal Works Progress Administration. Algren's assignment: to collect information for the national'America Eats'program, a pioneering enterprise whose members hoped to produce a series of regional guides describing types of immigration, settlement, and customs as these factors related to the universal language of food. Algren completed his project, a look at the foodways of the Midwest, but by the early 1940s the fruits of'America Eats'had been filed away as the government mobilized for war. Now at long last Algren's America Eats is published as one of th

Who reads America Eats (Iowa Szathmary Culinary Arts Series)?

Author

Nelson Algren

Publisher

University of Iowa Press; Univ of Iowa Pr

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780877453611

Category

history

Subjects

Western, Cooking, Home & Lifestyle

Rating

3.67 / 5 (12 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13