Meet the Author: Food Writer Pat Willard
Maria's Bookshop, Tuesday, October 2, 2012 at 6:30pm
Willard takes readers on a journey into the regional nooks and crannies of American cuisine where WPA writers--including Eudora Welty, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Nelson Algren, and others--were dispatched in 1935 to document the roots of this diverse culinary cuisine.The original America Eats! was written for the WPA by out-of-work writers, including Eudora Welty, Saul Bellow and Ralph Ellison during the Depression of the 1930s as an account of group eating as an important American social institution, the development of local, traditional cookery by churches and communities, fairs, festivals, fund-raisers and the like. It was never completed or published, but when food writer Willard found the manuscript in the Library of Congress, she decided to follow the footsteps of the original writers to find what remained of these feasts, or a modern equivalent.
"Not unlike going out with good friends or long-lost relatives for a taste of country life.”—Christian Science Monitor
“The spirit of camaraderie, and the determination to not let penury rob everyday existence of the companionable joys of food, are moving and instructive 70 years on.”—Atlantic Monthly
“Willard’s lovingly researched book, a tribute to regional cooking, is startling, funny and lip-smackingly good.”—More
Pat Willard is the author of Pie Every Day, A Soothing Broth, and Secrets of saffron, which was nominated for an IACP award for the best literary cookbook. She’s written for Bon Appetit, Ladies’ Home Journal, American Heritage, and the Los Angeles Times. She lives in Brooklyn.
Location: Street: Maria's Bookshop Additional: 960 Main Ave City: Durango, Province: Colorado Postal Code: 81301-5122 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
"Not unlike going out with good friends or long-lost relatives for a taste of country life.”—Christian Science Monitor
“The spirit of camaraderie, and the determination to not let penury rob everyday existence of the companionable joys of food, are moving and instructive 70 years on.”—Atlantic Monthly
“Willard’s lovingly researched book, a tribute to regional cooking, is startling, funny and lip-smackingly good.”—More
Pat Willard is the author of Pie Every Day, A Soothing Broth, and Secrets of saffron, which was nominated for an IACP award for the best literary cookbook. She’s written for Bon Appetit, Ladies’ Home Journal, American Heritage, and the Los Angeles Times. She lives in Brooklyn.
Location: Street: Maria's Bookshop Additional: 960 Main Ave City: Durango, Province: Colorado Postal Code: 81301-5122 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
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