Regional Eating
The hot thing is too eat local. I have often suggested doing that since that helps the growers in your area and you get to know them too. I did not realize that would that those regional fairs are crossing over boarders too. Buffalo Chicken wings no longer just in Buffalo. Philly Steak Sandwiches are served around the country as bar sandwiches.
A new book goes behind those foods that are distributed around the country to find the real soul foods of a regions. Mike Kurlansky, The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food-Before the National Highway system, Before Chain Resturants and Before Frozen Foods, When the Nation’s Food Was Season Regional and Traditional-From the Lost WPA Files. I am buying the book first because I love the title and then I really want to know what our local foods were really like before we became homogenized as a people. Just by reading the review I know that I will love it like I love driving back roads or blue highways and stopping at those small stores that offer local stuff. Some are selling vegetables from their farm and selling some other stuff. His book gives us what it really was like to eat regional foods when it really mattered.
Now the Sterns, Michael and Jane, give us 5oo things to eat before it is too late. They think that it is immigration plus regional food mixing to give us unique food like Korean tacos. They would say that Kurlansky’s is disappearing while the Sterns is emerging. The key is that these foods are not in a drive thru and much more than a burger or pizza…maybe like Wisconsin fish fry on Fridays.
A new book goes behind those foods that are distributed around the country to find the real soul foods of a regions. Mike Kurlansky, The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food-Before the National Highway system, Before Chain Resturants and Before Frozen Foods, When the Nation’s Food Was Season Regional and Traditional-From the Lost WPA Files. I am buying the book first because I love the title and then I really want to know what our local foods were really like before we became homogenized as a people. Just by reading the review I know that I will love it like I love driving back roads or blue highways and stopping at those small stores that offer local stuff. Some are selling vegetables from their farm and selling some other stuff. His book gives us what it really was like to eat regional foods when it really mattered.
Now the Sterns, Michael and Jane, give us 5oo things to eat before it is too late. They think that it is immigration plus regional food mixing to give us unique food like Korean tacos. They would say that Kurlansky’s is disappearing while the Sterns is emerging. The key is that these foods are not in a drive thru and much more than a burger or pizza…maybe like Wisconsin fish fry on Fridays.
Posted by Hella at 6/14/2009 10:13 AM 
Categories: Cookbooks are more than just recipes
Tags: cookbook writing write your own cookbook eat locally create a cookbook gardens food allergies family traditions cookbooks
Categories: Cookbooks are more than just recipes
Tags: cookbook writing write your own cookbook eat locally create a cookbook gardens food allergies family traditions cookbooks
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