I have worked as a community organizer, waitress, short-order cook, seamstress, restaurant reviewer, editor, and journalist.
I am the author of three books about food: Pie Every Day was sited by Atlantic Monthly, Bon Appetit, and Amazon.com, as among the top ten cookbooks of 1997; A Soothing Broth (1999), about old recipes to feed the sick; and Secrets of Saffron, nominated as "Best Literary Cookbook in 2002" by the International Association of Culinary Professionals. My latest book, based on material written in the 1930s by the WPA, is America Eats!,On the Road with the WPA: The Fish Fries, Box Supper Socials, and Chittlin' Feasts that Define Real American Food.
A memoir, He and I: A Life Through Marriage, explores a young woman growing up through a long marriage and coming to terms with the bumptious nature of love, has finally been completed. I'm now about two hundred pages into a new book: I don't know what it's about yet but so far it has to do with an old town full of immigrants and the way food helped them become Americans.
I also teach. It keeps me off the streets....
Courtesy of Pat Willard's Official Site.