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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.