{"id":2190,"date":"2010-03-09T23:59:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T23:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2010-03-09T23:59:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T23:59:11","slug":"the-six-regions-of-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/the-six-regions-of-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The six regions of the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=thewidblo-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=1564260410\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" align=\"right\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>When I was 15, my parents went to Chicago and brought me back two books: Douglas Adams&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0330508539?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thewidblo-21&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=6738&#038;creativeASIN=0330508539\">The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=thewidblo-21&#038;l=as2&#038;o=2&#038;a=0330508539\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1564260410?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thewidblo-21&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=6738&#038;creativeASIN=1564260410\">Regional American Cooking<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=thewidblo-21&#038;l=as2&#038;o=2&#038;a=1564260410\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>Both books have been important to me.<\/p>\n<p>The former was for many years my favourite book, and if I hadn&#8217;t read it, I might have been much worse at English (I had already stopped doing English at school, and it was only because I wanted to read Douglas Adams in the original language that it didn&#8217;t slowly get worse, but that&#8217;s really a separate blog posting).<\/p>\n<p>The latter is a fine cookbook, but it&#8217;s actually been more important to me because it taught me not to regard the US as one homogeneous country.<\/p>\n<p>It has divided the US into six regions: New England, the South, the Heartland, Louisiana, the Southwest and the Pacific States, and the food in each part is clearly quite distinctive.<\/p>\n<p>I have often in the years since then used these regions to understand American issues, and most often than not it has helped my understanding of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was 15, my parents went to Chicago and brought me back two books: Douglas Adams&#8217;s The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy and Regional American Cooking. Both books have been important to me. The former was for many years my favourite book, and if I hadn&#8217;t read it, I might have been much worse at English (I had already stopped doing English at school, and it was only because I wanted to read Douglas Adams in the original language that it didn&#8217;t slowly get worse, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,159,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-en","category-fooddrink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}