What’s this all about?
America Eats! is a place where you’ll read stories from many perspectives about the role food plays in our lives. The stories may dig into history or take you along on travel adventures. Personal essays and memoir pieces explore how and why food is a potent influence throughout our lives. Over the years I have written four books. Pie Every Day is something of a memoir with pies. A Soothing Broth explores historical invalid recipes. Secrets of Saffron is about the long history of saffron. And, finally America Eats! is extensive road trip across America to retrace the steps of the writers in the WPA’s Federal Writers Projects as they explored how our country’s food came together from all the people who settled here. My books have garnered recognition from the Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker as their book-of-the-year choices, and by the International Association of Culinary Professionals for literary food writing.
What you can expect. . . .
There will be at least one story each week that I hope you will love and share. Sometimes there are more stories as things wander into my head. If I miss a week it’s only because some stories are harder to write. It doesn’t happen that often, but it’s fair enough to mention.
Something annoying to tell you
Every week’s edition of the newsletter will appear in your inbox but not necessarily in your primary folder. If you don’t see it there then it has landed in your promotion or spam folders. If you still don’t see it, email me directly and I’ll help figure out what’s going on. I hear Substack is working on this bug because it is very annoying to subscribers and writers alike.
