Absolutely having the abalone.
Yum, that menu sounds great. lol
An Introduction to what America was eating state by state in 1939 Courtesy NY World’s Fair Cook Book with an Alabama meal.
“Here are menus from every state, as prepared by leading home economists who either are natives of the states they represent or who have worked so long in the communities that they are thoroughly familiar with the produce of the local farms, orchards and streams and have generously prepared these samples for this book. In some cases recipes accompanied the menus and these are printed in this section of the book to substantiate the fine promise of the menus themselves. May your gourmet's tour of this continent, and that dash to Hawaii and Puerto Rico, repay you with a perfect digestion”
What Arkansas was eating in 1939 according the New York Worlds Fair cookbook
STATES' EVIDENCE 181 "The Mexican influence has extended this far east and north. One finds tomatoes, onions, garlic and pepper, and hotter foods than further north. Also the Mexican chopped hot vegetable salads are popular. "Collard and turnip greens are very popular and all forms of field peas, such as Crowder peas, Lady peas, Black-eyed peas, etc. "There are many wild greens and fruits which are much used and relished by the people ; Muscadine grapes, possum persimmon, wild plum, watercress, hickory nuts, hazelnuts, chestnuts, walnuts and chinquapins. The wild fruits are eaten fresh and also made into many delicious products for the winter. "The recipes were prepared by Miss Zilpha Battey of the foods and cookery division of our university."
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