Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens Paperback - 2011
by Beahrs, Andrew (Author)
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- Paperback
One young food writer searches for America's lost wild foods, from New Orleans croakers to Illinois prairie hen, and employs Mark Twain as his guide.
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Details
- Title Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens
- Author Beahrs, Andrew (Author)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 2011
- Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1-0143119346
- ISBN 9780143119340 / 0143119346
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.8 in (21.08 x 13.72 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Dewey Decimal Code 394
Summary
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.