Helen Zoe Veit is director of the What America Ate Project, an interactive website and online archive of culinary sources from the Great Depression, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Materials include the far-flung papers of the WPA America Eats program, a collection of rare community cookbooks, a huge collection of food marketing and advertising materials, and hundreds of food-related photographs. The website also includes essays by a range of top food scholars, primary source activities, and an ever-expanding interactive recipe database transcribed through crowd-sourcing.