We strongly suspect that this custom of community suppers on Sunday nights was a response to feeling that there wasn't enough sense of community with all the changes that were taking place in society as a whole.įitzgerald: People wanted to evoke the past. Stavely: After the Civil War, in the era of industrialization and heavy immigration, it was felt that these traditions were slipping away. The two split their time between Cambridge and Jamestown, R.I. Together the pair has researched and written two books, "Northern Hospitality: Cooking by the Book in New England" and "America's Founding Food: The Story of New England Cooking," that give armchair cooks a taste of New England heritage from the Puritan days through more recent times. "There were cuisines of ethnic groups - Italian food, Chinese food - and then there was just food. "I became interested in why we all in New England were influenced by this. "We had baked beans on Saturday night and ate cod cakes, chowders, and lobsters," she says.
Fitzgerald is a public librarian and college chaplain who was raised in a New England Irish-Catholic household and has had a long-standing curiosity about food traditions. Stavely is a scholar who descends from early New England settlers and has written about Puritan influences on American culture. Healing the Heart of Democracy: the courage to create a politics worthy of the human spirit by Parker J.The husband-wife team Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald has written the history of New England through the region's everyday food, an interest they come by honestly. Lincoln Tells a Joke: how laughter saved the president (and the country) by Kathleen Krull and Paul Brewer, illustrated by Stacy Innerstīringing Home the Dharma: awakening right where you are by Jack Kornfield (chapter five is on politics) Boller, Jr.Ĭampaigns: a century of presidential races from the photo archives of The New York Times What You Should Know About Politics But Don’t by Jessamyn Conrad The Negotiator: a memoir by George Mitchell
Run: your personal guide to winning public office by Marian WalshĬounselor: a life at the edge of history by Ted Sorensenīobby Kennedy: the making of a liberal icon by Larry Tye Thompsonĭavid Foster Wallace’s essay Up Simba, which you can find in his book Consider the Lobster and other essaysīarack Obama: the story by David Maraniss Added to that confusion, we had not one call or e-mail this morning from our wonderful listeners! Feel free to add your comments to this post, with books on politics that you recommend.įear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail by Hunter S.
This morning’s book show on WCAI was a bit different than our usual book show, not least of all because it began with Mindy interviewing a Nantucket candidate for sheriff! On top of that, our guest book talker, Rosie Gray a political reporter for BuzzFeed News (as well as a Falmouth Academy graduate!) was on the road, not in the studio with us.
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