In order to evaluate our project review of What America Ate. We must first examine what the project showcases . The review of What America Ate, provides different resources and artifacts that help to describe and show how the culture of the United States was during the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world also known as the “Great Depression.”
The website was first published March 23rd, 2017. The site is very user friendly and has drew the attention of many historians. Which explains how the project is award winning. The website has an abundance of information and tools you can explore and use. One reason the website is an award winner is it includes well over two-hundred detailed community cookbooks. These books were originally cheap and flimsy books passed from neighbor to neighbor. However they are now a highly valuable source. The site has a key feature which is it’s interactive map with digital archives of the rare ads, food packaging material, and pamphlets used during the depression.
Here is a small example of the interactive map:
This link will take you directly to the website’s interactive map: http://whatamericaate.org/map.php
This projects main audience is historians. The project mainly serves as an indexed browser that can be filtered through location. Other main people interested in this would be literary scholars particularly the archive of essays. Also, chefs are particularly interested in the style of dishes from the time period since there are 193 cookbooks with 1488 individual recipes also with alcoholic drinks.
