http://www.thetakeaway.org/2009/may/13/food-younger-land-mark-kurlansky/ http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/takeaway/takeaway051309e.mp3 Mark Kurlansky on What America Eats http://www.thetakeaway.org/2009/may/13/food-younger-land-mark-kurlansky/ http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/wpa-mural-oranges.jpg true 6838 segment During the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt decided that even unemployed writers needed to be put to work. So as part of the New Deal he created the Federal Writers Project and dispatched scribes to all corners of the nation to document, among other topics, food. "What America Eats" be http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/cache/wpa-mural-oranges_26_square.jpg http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/cache/wpa-mural-oranges_26_square.jpg