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

• Autore: Van Willigen John
• Pubblicazione: Lexington, Kentucky : , : University Press of Kentucky, , 2009; ©2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Disciplina: 630.9769
• Soggetto topico: Farm life - Kentucky - History; Family farms - Kentucky - History; Food habits - Kentucky - History
• Persona (resp. second.): Van WilligenAnne <1964->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Food and everyday life on Kentucky family farms, 1920-1950
• ISBN: 0-8131-9295-1; 0-8131-4977-0; 0-8131-7126-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777653803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Kentucky remembered.