Food from the 40's

Following yesterday's photographs from the 30's and 40's, here is Mark Kurlansky discussing his book The Food of a Younger Land: A portrait of American food—before the national highway system, before chain restaurants, and before frozen food, when the nation's food was seasonal. This book is collection of essays on American food created as part of the Federal Writers Project just prior to the start of WWII. Like the photographs from yesterday's post, the essays in this book are from the Library of Congress. I was in the audience for this talk.