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Delaware's Big Quarterly

I have had a quick look at a book called The Food of a Younger Land(Mar K., 2009). In this book, author thinks that the most marked characters of traditional food are seasonal and regional. Before modern transportation system was built up, American people did not have chain restaurants or frozen tools; therefore, they lived on traditional food. In this book, authors list a lot of seasonal and regional food. Those food, some are for survival, and some are for congratulation. The book also states how the environment influence the texture or the process of producing food.

There is one chapter "Delaware's Big Quarterly" in this book, and I read it more specifically. It describes a annual religious festival on August called Big Quarterly in Wilmington, Delaware. On this festival, the assignments of ministers would be announced. It was also a time for free blacks and slaves to come together and celebrate their faith. And traditional food was an indispensable part of the festival. The varied menu consists of chicken pot-pie, hot corn pone, greens and side meat, frank-furters and many other food which I never heard before. There was no formality to the eating, which was like a buffet; people made their own selections from the stands. This setting also symbolized the free faith of those slaves or blacks. This book describes traditional American food in detail.

It is a precious literary for American culture.

Reference

Kurlansky, M. (2009). The Food of a Younger Land. New York: Works Progress    Administration. 

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