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Potlucks, church picnics, fish fries,\xa0family reunions \u2014 during the 1930s\xa0writers were\xa0paid by the government\xa0to chronicle\xa0local food,\xa0eating customs\xa0and recipes across the United States. America Eats, a WPA project, sent writers like Nelson Algren, Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, and\xa0Stetson Kennedy out to document America\u2019s relationship with food during the Great Depression.