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Twain's feast: searching for America's lost foods in the footsteps of Samuel Clemens

By Andrew , Twain , Mark;Beahrs

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9781101434819, 9781101434482, 1101434481, 1101434813
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
588 kB (602375 bytes)
Pages
323 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1835-1910;Food habits -- United States;United SAmerican;Food habits;Gastronomy;Biography;TwainFood habits--United States;CookingMark

Description

It makes me cry to think of them : prairie-hens, from Illinois -- A barrel of odds and ends : possum and raccoon -- Masterpiece of the universe : trout at Lake Tahoe -- Heaven on the half shell : oysters and mussels in San Francisco -- Dinner was leisurely served : Philadelphia terrapin -- The most absorbing story in the world : sheep-head and croakers, from New Orleans -- It is my Thanksgiving Day : cranberries -- Twilight : maple syrup -- Epilogue.;Shares insights into Mark Twain's menu-style tribute to American cuisine and how it included wild regional specialties that have been lost to industrial food production, tracing the author's efforts to track down eight specific dishes.

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