Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.81 (978 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143119346 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Though the author follows Twain's life and literary works along loosely chronological lines, he ranges deep into a personal and journalistic agenda. . All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly In his first book, Beahrs uses the palate of America's great humorist and satirist to celebrate and explore native foodstuffs and even make the case for him as a passionate locavore. The book intersperses Beahrs's firsthand experiences, such as observing Illinois prairie chickens in mating season and attending an Arkansas raccoon supper, with Twain's gastronomical record. (June)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. The author's upbeat tone doesn't dodge the darker side of his hero, entertainingly entwining more commonly known biographical facts wit
. 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
"Twain's Feast is Delicious" according to M. Hill. The author, Andrew Beahrs, begins his book by recreating a favorite breakfast of Mark Twain's noted in the book A Tramp Abroad. Twain dreamed of the delicious food of his homeland as he traveled through Europe, disgusted with the cuisine he encountered - runny cream, tasteless chicken, half-rotted produce, etc. His fantasy breakfast included a two inch thick dry aged, grass fed porter hous. C. Cook said I LOVED THIS BOOK !. I loved this book !It almost reminded me of the recent movie Julie and Julia !.only in this case the author is following a very early foodie Mark Twain.Of course mark Twain was a very traveled person ---having eaten his way through France , England , Germany and other places as well. His I LOVED THIS BOOK ! C. Cook I loved this book !It almost reminded me of the recent movie Julie and Julia !.only in this case the author is following a very early foodie Mark Twain.Of course mark Twain was a very traveled person ---having eaten his way through France , England , Germany and other places as well. His 4 diamond plus to me was that even with eating all these other countries specialitys he still missed an. diamond plus to me was that even with eating all these other countries specialitys he still missed an. As Much About the Author as About Twain Robert J. Newell Twain's Feast is only partly about Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain. A lot of the book is about Berkeley author Andrew Bearhs, his travels and opinions, and his predictable political orientation.Now, to be fair, the book is very carefully researched (though there are a few unexpected bloopers), well written, and quite engaging in style. It's all based on some lines penned by Twain while i
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.. 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. In 1879, Mark Twain paused during a European tour to compose a fantasy menu of the American dishes he missed the most. 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. A true love letter to American food, the menu included some eighty specialties, from Mississippi black bass to Philadelphia terrapin