Twain's feast
Subtitle: searching for America's lost foods in the footsteps of Samuel Clemens
By: Andrew Beahrs
Publisher: The Penguin Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781594202599
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: It makes me cry to think of them : prairie-hens, from Illinois; title: A barrel of odds and ends : possum and raccoon; title: Masterpiece of the universe : trout at Lake Tahoe; title: Heaven on the half shell : oysters and mussels in San Francisco; title: Dinner was leisurely served : Philadelphia terrapin; title: The most absorbing story in the world : sheepshead and croakers, from New Orleans; title: It is my Thanksgiving Day : cranberries; title: Twilight : maple syrup; title: Epilogue; title: Acknowledgments; title: Notes