Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens
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"In this savory feast of ideas, Andrew Beahrs employs his curiosity and wit to reconstitute Twain's original literary ingredients into an American meal that is both delicious and elucidating." -- Nick Offerman One young food writer's search for America's lost wild foods, from New Orleans croakers to Illinois prairie hens, with Mark Twain as his guide.
In 1879, Mark Twain paused during a European tour to compose a fantasy menu of the American dishes he missed the most. A true love letter to American food, the menu included some eighty specialties, from Mississippi black bass to Philadelphia terrapin. Andrew Beahrs chooses eight of these regionally distinctive foods, retracing Twain's footsteps as he sets out to discover whether they can still be found on American tables. Weaving together passages from Twain's famous works and Beahrs's own adventures, this travelogue-cum-culinary-history takes us back to a bygone era when wild foods were at the heart of American cooking.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0143119346
ISBN13:9780143119340
Release Date:October 2011
Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group
Length:336 Pages
Weight:0.66 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.4" x 8.3"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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