Episode 215: What America Ate Project – Food of the Great Depression 51b33

<p><span data-sheets-value="[null,2,"In an effort to preserve a period of America's culinary history the National Endowment for the Humanities has funded the What America Ate Project to create an innovative website and online archive of culinary sources from the Great Depression. Materials include the far-flung papers of the WPA America Eats program, a collection of rare community cookbooks, and hundreds of food marketing and advertising materials from the 1930s. "]" data-sheets-format="[null,null,641,[null,0],null,null,null,null,null,null,1,null,0]">In an effort to preserve a period of America’s culinary history the National Endowment for the Humanities has funded the What America Ate Project to create an innovative website and online archive of culinary sources from the Great Depression. Materials include the far-flung papers of the WPA America Eats program, a collection of rare community cookbooks, and hundreds of food marketing and advertising materials from the 1930s. </span></p> <script> var array = eval('[{"alt":"","caption":"","description":"","href":"http://heritageradionetwork.org/podcast/what-america-ate-project-food-of-the-great-depression/attachment/3720404/","src":"http://heritageradionetwork.org/wp-content/s/2015/10/3720404.jpg","title":"3720404","0":"http://heritageradionetwork.org/wp-content/s/2015/10/3720404.jpg","1":400,"2":293,"3":false},{"alt":"","caption":"","description":"","href":"http://heritageradionetwork.org/podcast/what-america-ate-project-food-of-the-great-depression/481287_orig/","src":"http://heritageradionetwork.org/wp-content/s/2015/10/481287_orig.jpg","title":"481287_orig","0":"http://heritageradionetwork.org/wp-content/s/2015/10/481287_orig.jpg","1":600,"2":800,"3":false},{"alt":"","caption":"","description":"","href":"http://heritageradionetwork.org/podcast/what-america-ate-project-food-of-the-great-depression/attachment/7678877/","src":"http://heritageradionetwork.org/wp-content/s/2015/10/7678877.jpg","title":"7678877","0":"http://heritageradionetwork.org/wp-content/s/2015/10/7678877.jpg","1":427,"2":312,"3":false},{"alt":"","caption":"","description":"","href":"http://heritageradionetwork.org/podcast/what-america-ate-project-food-of-the-great-depression/attachment/4017239/","src":"http://heritageradionetwork.org/wp-content/s/2015/10/4017239.jpg","title":"4017239","0":"http://heritageradionetwork.org/wp-content/s/2015/10/4017239.jpg","1":458,"2":666,"3":false},{"alt":"","caption":"","description":"","href":"http://heritageradionetwork.org/podcast/what-america-ate-project-food-of-the-great-depression/attachment/8170310/","src":"http://heritageradionetwork.org/wp-content/s/2015/10/8170310.jpg","title":"8170310","0":"http://heritageradionetwork.org/wp-content/s/2015/10/8170310.jpg","1":423,"2":314,"3":false},{"alt":"","caption":"","description":"","href":"http://heritageradionetwork.org/podcast/what-america-ate-project-food-of-the-great-depression/2881160_orig/","src":"http://heritageradionetwork.org/wp-content/s/2015/10/2881160_orig.jpg","title":"2881160_orig","0":"http://heritageradionetwork.org/wp-content/s/2015/10/2881160_orig.jpg","1":640,"2":444,"3":false}]'); galleryArrays.push(array); document.write("<div class='galleryHolder gallery_"+(galleryArrays.length-1)+"'></div>"); </script> 4c2x5c