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Journal Article
Food in Finding H.F. and Secret City by Julia Watts: The Food of Home and the Food of the Big City
2014
Overview
Food in Kentucky-born novelist Julia Watts’s novels is never merely nutrition: the food on the characters’ tables represents safety or risk, the known or the unknown, the comforts of the familiar, or the pleasures and discomforts of expanding horizons. In Finding H.F., as part of a journey of self-discovery and coming-of-age, H.F. Simms leaves behind the familiarity of her memaw’s beans and cornbread for the Chinese food of Atlanta and the fried shrimp of the Gulf Coast. In Secret City, Ruby Pickett and her family move to the government’s \"Secret City\" of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, so that Ruby’s daddy can help with the war effort, and they bring with them the recipes and foodways of their home in Whitley County, Kentucky. Yet as Ruby comes of age, she, too, experiences her world expanding through new foods such as mushroom consomme and tomato aspic. This essay examines how one Kentucky novelist has employed Appalachian food and foodways as metaphors of her characters’ personal journeys of discovery.
