This is the fun of finding a seventy-year-old raw manuscript.ĭishes New York City’s Hotels Gave America In the process, forgotten cuisines and a vanished world are unearthed. The reader can experience the archaeologist’s adven ture that I had sifting through these unedited and unpublished manuscripts with all their blemishes, including misspellings, bad English, bad Spanish, and chaotic recipes that sometimes require a cook’s imagi nation to make work. I made selec tions of the most interesting pieces-poetry, short stories, essays, interviews, and recipes-because to publish all of it would have required several volumes. Instead, it is a sampling of the broad and rich mountain of copy that the dying Federal Writers’ Proj ect generated for this, their final effort. This book is not an attempt to produce what America Eats might have been if it had been edited and pieces selected. Never sleep with a woman whose trou bles are greater than your own. Studs, you left just as I began to hope you would live forever.
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