Regional Food in U. S. ONE (1938); O.T. Christmas in Kenya

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   This continues a post of the regional food described in U. S. ONE (1938),
published by the Works Progress Administration.  My half hour session at the
NYPL computer was up.
   Many of the foods listed, such as Connecticut's "Roast Raccoon" and New
York's "Blushing Bunny" and "Post Road Pudding," will be impossible to find
today.  Even the latest volume of DARE has no entry for "Post Road."


Pg. XXVI:
   (SOUTH CAROLINA--ed.)
JELLY PIE...
CAROLINA OPOSSUM
CAROLINA OPOSSUM AND SWEET POTATOES
DEVILED BAKED HAM
FISH STEW
HOMINY WAFFLES
CARCKLING CORNBREAD
   GEORGIA
'POSSUM AND 'TATERS
SOUSE MEAT
TURNIP GREENS
CORN PONE
SORGHUM PUDDING
LEATHER BREECHES: dried green snap beans, soaked overnight and boiled with
salt bacon.
BARBECUE
BRUNSWICK STEW
FRIED PIES
BOILED PEANUTS
   FLORIDA
WAMPUS OR HUSH PUPPIES: corn meal scalded in ilk, mixed with egg, baking
powder, and onion, and cooked in the grease of frying fish.  In early Flordia
days when fish were fried in large pans otu of doors, the savory odor caused
the family's pack of hounds to whine and yelp with hunger.  As a means of
quieting the dogs, the cook would hastily scald corn meal, pat it into cakes
without salt or shortening, and cook it in the grease of frying fish.  (Pg.
XXVII--ed.) When done, it was thrown to the dogs, after which silence
prevailed; hence the name, hush puppies.
SWAMP SALAD
SWAMP CABBAGE
COMPTIE
RATTLESNAKE SNACKS
RATTLESNAKE ENTREE
FROMAJARDIS
SEA TURTLE
FLORIDA GOPHER: sliced into steaks and fried over a low fire.  (In Florida a
gopher is a land turtle.)
GUAVA JELLY
STONE CRAB
COQUINA COCKTAIL
CRAWFISH ENCHILADO
ARROZ CON POLLO

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O.T.  CHRISTMAS IN KENYA

   The next stop in the world tour was planned to be Christmas in Kenya.
   As you know, a site in Kenya has just been attacked.
   Then again, there's a chance that New York could be attacked again.
There's no certainty that I'd be safer in New York or in Kenya.
   Kenya was last attacked in 1998.  I felt that the country deserves my
tourism dollars (a substantial part of its economy), and that its citizens
shouldn't suffer for the actions of a few.
   There was no insurance available for terrorism, so I stand to lose my
entire trip expenses.