If You Want To Understand America, Look At Its Food
September 16th, 2016

It’s long been observed that if we want to understand the history of a nation or a city or a period in time, we can start by looking at its food.
Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe have long taken this approach and now they look at the food of depression era America in their new book A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression
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My conversation with Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe: