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S'està carregant… Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950 (Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History Series)de John Van Willigen
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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 No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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What did the kids take to school for lunch? what is sorghum syrup? how did families clean? how often did they bathe? etc., etc., etc.
The book includes comments of various people living in different areas of Kentucky about all manners of things; shopping, slaughter days, court days, stringing beans, etc.
I found it all quite fascinating and then sad when I came to the last chapter and read about agents telling citizens they needed to buy pressure cookers to can properly. Laws were created and farmers weren't able to sell things like milk, eggs, pork, including sausages, etc. Later in 1950's the law for selling chickens was added.
Due to the laws and the changes brought by electricity, life changed. The energy source called FOOD changed on the farm making people more reliant on the foods sold in grocery stores and people becoming less self-reliant. People couldn't save seeds from grocery store produce, because the next generation is different, (not as good) as the first generation. Saving the "heirloom" seeds became less frequent and therefore so did the sharing/swapping with neighbors. The structure of society also changed.
Great book, sad we've lost our self-reliance. ( )