Fish Fries

In a lovely book of 2008, America Eats, author Pat Willard puts fish fries into her subtitle, but hardly mentions them in her book-length discussion of food events in American culture. Examining the custom in our own region, I have figured out why. Willard relies heavily on WPA interview transcripts from the 1930s. And fish fries, it turns out, are a more recently evolved custom than that. I mean fish fries as a come-all, public event for profit or charity, as a community institution.

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Fish Fries is an episode from Plains Folk by Prairie Public Broadcasting.

This episode is 4:30 long.

This episode was published on Mar 7, 2026.

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