Description:
Celebrated food historian and cookbook writer William Woys Weaver delves deeply into the history of Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine to sort fact from fiction in the foodlore of this unique American culture.
Brief description: William Woys Weaver is an internationally known food historian and author of 22 books, including As American as Shoofly Pie: The Foodlore and Fakelore of Pennsylvania Dutch Cuisine, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Review Quotes: "Weaver seems to have had a ripping good time unmasking the fake Pennsylvania Dutch tourist culture, with its hex signs (bogus) and windmills (faux) and buffets designed to fill up busloads of tourists on a budget. . . . At the same time, Weaver has taken seriously his mission to rediscover the foods of his ancestors, interviewing hundreds of people over 30 years."-- "NPR's The Salt"