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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451606703321

Autore

Van Willigen John

Titolo

Food and everyday life on Kentucky family farms, 1920-1950 / / John van Willigen, Anne van Willigen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : University Press of Kentucky, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

0-8131-9295-1

0-8131-4977-0

0-8131-7126-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History Series

Disciplina

630.9769

Soggetti

Farm life - Kentucky - History

Family farms - Kentucky - History

Food habits - Kentucky - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Farms and rural life in Kentucky -- In the kitchen -- Housework -- Farmwork -- Garden spots and fruit trees -- Tending the field crops -- Keeping livestock -- Country stores and huckster trucks -- Poke, blackberries, and hush puppies -- Puttin' up the garden -- Doin' the hog work -- Kentucky foodways.

Sommario/riassunto

Based on interviews conducted by the University of Kentucky's Family Farm Project and supplemented by archival research, photographs, and recipes, Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920--1950 recalls a vanishing way of life in rural Kentucky. Focusing on the family farm in the first half of the twentieth century, John van Willigen and Anne van Willigen illuminate how the revolutionary change from subsistence to market-based agricultural production that was prompted by economic stress and government policy altered not only the production, preparation, and consumption of food in K