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Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens

Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens - Paperback

by Andrew Beahrs
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Availability:In StockContributor:Andrew BeahrsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2011-10-25Pages:336
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780143119340ISBN-10:0143119346UPC:9780143119340Book Category:Cooking, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:History, Customs & TraditionsSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6Product ID:SC93SYPPXC
"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.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780143119340ISBN-10:0143119346UPC:9780143119340Book Category:Cooking, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:History, Customs & TraditionsSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6Product ID:SC93SYPPXC
Andrew Beahrs is the author of two novels, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Gastronomica, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Writer's Chronicle, among other publications. He lives in California with his family.
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

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