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Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel...
by Beahrs, Andrew | PB | VeryGood
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- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
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- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 9780143119340
- Book Title
- Twain's Feast : Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens
- Item Length
- 8.3in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Uk-B Format Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Cooking, Literary Criticism, Social Science
- Topic
- Personal Memoirs, Regional & Ethnic / American / General, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), American / General, Essays & Travelogues, History, Essays & Narratives
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 11 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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"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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0143119346
ISBN-13
9780143119340
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102895051
Product Key Features
Book Title
Twain's Feast : Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Regional & Ethnic / American / General, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), American / General, Essays & Travelogues, History, Essays & Narratives
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Cooking, Literary Criticism, Social Science
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
11 Oz
Additional Product Features
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Reviews
"Beahrs, a wonderfully lucid, knowlesgable, and enthusiastic writer, uses Twain's gustatory passions as a map with which to explore the nation." -- Chicago Tribune "Part offbeat literary study, part Blue Highways travelogue, part slow -food manifesto...lots of fun." -- The New York Times Book Review "What a gift this is! Inspired by the foods most loved by Mark Twain, Beahrs has given us a warm and nostalgic history of wild foods in the United States." -- Marion Nestle "A biography of Twain, a historical record, an elegy for what we have lost from our table, and spur to preserve what we still have." -- The Village Voice " Twain's Feast is a celebration of the way America used to eat ... Beahrs's attention to detail had my mouth watering." -- Novella Carpenter, author of Farm City "An instant classic in the literature of the table." -- Andrew Todhunter, author of A Meal Observed
Dewey Decimal
394.1/20973
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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