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The Kitchen Sisters Present

19 – America Eats: A Hidden Archive

The Kitchen Sisters Present

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Society & Culture

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2015

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Potlucks, church picnics, fish fries, family reunions — during the 1930s writers were paid by the government to chronicle local food, eating customs and recipes across the United States. America Eats, a WPA project, sent writers like Nelson Algren, Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, and Stetson Kennedy out to document America’s relationship with food during the Great Depression.

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Thanks so much. Radiotopia.

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FM slash donate. Today on Fugitive Waves, America Eats, a little-known archive of writings, photographs, and recipes gathered during the 1930s.

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In our search for hidden kitchens and how people come together through food,

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we opened up a phone line on NPR and asked listeners to call in with

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their stories.

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