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

from Kellswitch

A look at the foods that made Mark Twain's list of the best things to eat, but not just at what the foods were but where they came from, how they became part of our culinary landscape and how they have either been lost or are in danger of fading away forever. At times the book got a little preach...

from JBD1

A creative take on American food history, drawing on a sort of dream meal written up by Mark Twain. Lots of interesting detail on historical and contemporary American food through a Twainesque lens.

from thornton37814

Author Andrew Beahrs scoured Twain's books for food references. He then set out to investigate the foods as they came to be part of the American landscape of eating, how they were in Twain's era, and how they are in today's landscape if they still exist or why they are not as important if they ar...

from dele2451

A terrific examination of literary great Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain and his tremendous appetite for river life and the outstanding regional foods of early America.

from dele2451

A terrific examination of literary great Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain and his tremendous appetite for river life and the outstanding regional foods of early America.