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Mark Kurlansky

Thu., May 14, 6:30 p.m., free (reservations required), National Constitution Center, 525 Arch St., 215-409-6700, constitutioncenter.org.


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Published: May 13, 2009

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America Eats was planned as a guidebook to the country's eating habits, undertaken as a make-work WPA project but abandoned after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The raw contributions, from a few ringers — Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, Nelson Algren — but mostly by amateurs, were meant to be smoothed out into a single editorial voice, something of a prewar Zagat's. Mark Kurlansky has sifted through the archives to offer The Food of a Younger Land, a treasure trove of culinary idiosyncrasies, a snapshot of the final moments when there was no alternative to "Buy Local," before fast food and frozen entrées largely eliminated regional differences.

Thu., May 14, 6:30 p.m., free (reservations required), National Constitution Center, 525 Arch St., 215-409-6700, constitutioncenter.org.

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