The material in “The food of a Younger Land” was originally compiled for publication in a book called “America Eats” after the FWP's directors decided to put together a book on food to make use of the expertise of its writers around the country. Even at that time there was a sense that food culture was being lost: frozen food was appearing, as were industrial food products such as Jell-O and ready-made cake mixes. So the editors set out to “preserve not only traditional dishes but also traditional attitudes and customs” and decreed that “emphasis should be divided between food and people.” The resulting material contained many references to recipes from the civil-war era, and some items look back as far as the colonial period. But apart from a recipe for “Depression Cake” (without flour of eggs), there are few direct references to the privations of the time.

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