Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Beahrs, Andrew |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Date: | 10/25/2011 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
“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 ashis guide.
In 1879, Mark Twain paused during a European tour to compose afantasy menu of the American dishes he missed the most. A true loveletter to American food, the menu included some eighty specialties,from Mississippi black bass to Philadelphia terrapin. Andrew Beahrschooses eight of these regionally distinctive foods, retracing Twain’sfootsteps as he sets out to discover whether they can still be found onAmerican tables. Weaving together passages from Twain’s famous worksand Beahrs’s own adventures, this travelogue-cum-culinary-history takesus back to a bygone era when wild foods were at the heart of Americancooking.
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