Episode 114 Betty Fussell The Accidental Food Historian

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American food writer Betty Fussell joins Linda Pelaccio this week on A Taste of the Past for a conversation on culinary history cultural identity and food literature Betty is an award-winning writer and is the author of eleven books ranging from biography to cookbooks food history and memoir Learn how she discovered food through travel and writing and became an accidental food historian Listen as Betty describes the American cuisine she discovered throughout her life and elaborates on everything from corn fields to Mexican markets Find out why Betty fell in love with World as she reads one of her literary passages live on-air This program was sponsored by S Wallace Edwards and Sons The food of my family was absolutely terrible – the land of the bland It was Midwestern bible belt food in California The discovery of the drama of what food could be was enormous 07 08 Corn created settlements its the basis of our agriculture in the Western world Its totally different from the plow culture of Europe 12 15 I have two romances – one is the California landscape I grew up in two is World The wonder of World has never left me its the last of the great cities of the last two centuries 21 20 –Betty Fussell on A Taste of the Past Click here to visit this podcast episode