Old Wine and Food Stories

A pioneering book which culls stories from over 11,000,000 American newspaper pages provided by the Library of Congress. The book offers ninety individual vignettes of whimsical, funny, serious and sad stories as they were portrayed to the American people via era newspapers during the period 1836 through 1922. They all have wine and food as a common nexus. Read how America interpreted itself as it grew from a rural agrarian land into a mighty industrial nation.