Status Updates From America Eats!: On the Road ...

Chapter on the American Southwest, including Native American culture and food. Describing how the relatively healthy diet of Native Ams. was pretty much effed up when U.S. came in, penned up the Natives in reservations, destroyed their food sources, and put them on "gov. cheese" and other not so good surplus food.

Past the chapter from the South, including the Carolinas, where in some areas, viticulture is taking over from tobacco, Baptists or no Baptists. And the Conch eaters of the Florida Keys. Moving on now to church suppers.

Food and politicians. The Neshoba County Fair in MS. Local politics and cooking for lost of people in a place where still local politicians have to make a stop to be taken seriously. Things have changed, yet they still seem frozen in time.

Finished section on the cooking of the Pacific Northwest. On raising deer and other wild game for food and cooking cool crawfish. The descriptions, from the WPA era as well as contemporary just reinforce my desire to move up there. All I need is to find a good job, and I'd be on my way.