Roadside Food: Good Home-Style Cooking Across America

GIFT QUALITY 1986 Stated First Edition large photo-illustrated softcover (about 100 photographs). Clean, well-preserved UNREAD COPY. Cover is bright, colorful and glossy and pages are unmarked. Very nice! 160 pp. This is a photo-essay / travel / food book that combines photographs and essays. "LeRoy Woodson Jr. traveled for about a year through the United States, visiting 'roadside' restaurants and cafes. The focus is on home?style cooking ? ?good home?style cooking? ? the kind of comforting, regional, traditional foods served in ?roadside? diners, mom?and?pop places, etc. Essays (by 10 authors/journalists) accompany the photos. The essays discuss specific American classic foods (hamburgers, donuts, hot dogs, gumbo, lobster, etc.) and regional specialties. The book captures more than just the food ? it aims to show the culture, traditions, atmosphere of roadside dining across America. The 'cultural rather than culinary traditions' are emphasized.".