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from Travels into North America / Pehr Kalm -- Ice Cream / Thomas Jefferson -- from The Hasty-Pudding / Joel Barlow -- Johny Cake, or Hoe Cake / Amelia Simmons -- from The Journals of Lewis & Clark / Meriwether Lewis -- Letters to His Daughter, 1819-32 / John Pintard -- Virginia Barbecue / John M. Duncan -- Exploit of the Professor / Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -- To Make a Chowder / Lydia Maria Child -- from A Diary in America / Frederick Marryat -- Potted Lobster / Eliza Leslie -- This Day's Food / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Above All Other Birds / James M. Sanderson -- To Dress Macaroni a la Sauce Blanche / Sarah Rutledge -- Eating-Houses / George G. Foster -- To Make Corn Bread / Tunis G. Campbell -- Chowder / Herman Melville -- Peach Leather / Annabella P. Hill -- Bread / Henry David Thoreau -- Watermelons -- Irish Potato Pudding / Esther Levy -- from My Bondage and My Freedom / Frederick Douglass -- Lay of the One Fish-Ball / George Martin Lane -- Tomato Catsup / Marion Harland (Mary Virginia Terhune) -- Apple-Pie / Henry Ward Beecher -- Michigan Receipt for Making Shortcake in Camp / National Cookery Book -- Great Treat of Ice Cream / Walt Whitman -- Hayes Cake and Tilden Cake / Estelle Woods Wilcox, Comp. -- from Cookery / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Mother's Rice Pudding / Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland -- from The Philosophy of Frying / Randolph Harrison -- Meat-Flavoring / Marion Cabell Tyree -- Tyranny of Pie / George Augustus Sala -- Black Cake / Emily Dickinson -- from Zuni Breadstuff / Frank Hamilton Cushing -- Chicken Croquettes / Abby Fisher -- My Sugar-Making Days / John Burroughs -- Chicken Chartreuse / Mary Lincoln -- Success in Entertaining / Ward McAllister -- Roman Punch No. 1 and No. 2 / Mrs. F. L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann -- from History of the United States / Henry Adams -- Bran Jelly / Mrs. E. E. Kellogg -- from The Epicurean / Charles Ranhofer -- Lobster a la Newberg or Delmonico / Charles Ranhofer -- Spring Chicken / Elizabeth Robins Pennell -- Eggs a la Goldenrod / Fannie Merritt Farmer -- Bill of Fare on the Plains / Annie D. Tallent -- from I Go A-Marketing / Henrietta Sowle -- Hamburg Steak / Sarah Tyson Rorer -- Calas / The Picayune's Creole Cook Book -- Cranberry Sauce / The Picayune's Creole Cook Book -- Possum / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Matzos Pudding / Lizzie Kander -- from The Great Pancake Record / Owen Johnson -- Old-Fashioned Hickory Nut Cake / Hester Price -- from Maymeys from Cuba / Edna Ferber -- Perfection Salad / Mrs. John E. Cooke -- from The Promised Land / Mary Antin -- Baked Bananas, Porto Rican Fashion / Rufus Estes -- Around Little Italy / Clarence E. Edwords -- from My Antonia / Willa Cather -- Bucks County Apple Butter / Edith M. Thomas -- Home of the Crab / H. L. Mencken -- Hot Dogs -- Puree of Peanuts Number Two (Extra Fine) / George Washington Carver -- Eating American / Sheila Hibben -- Cape Cod Turkey (Stuffed Codfish) / Sheila Hibben -- from Of Time and the River / Thomas Wolfe -- Nut Loaf / Isabel Ely Lord -- from American Food and American Houses / Gertrude Stein -- Chop Suey / Beverly Hills Woman's Club -- Breakfast / John Steinbeck -- from Down-East Ambrosia / Kenneth Roberts -- Planked Porterhouse Steak / Rex Stout -- Mr. Barbee's Terrapin / Joseph Mitchell -- from America Eats / Nelson Algren -- Lusty Bit of Nourishment / M.F.K. Fisher -- Define This Word -- from Cross Creek Cookery / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- from Clementine in the Kitchen / Samuel Chamberlain -- Avocado, or the Future of Eating / S.J. Perelman -- That Infernal Machine, the Pressure Cooker / Betty MacDonald -- Fried Scallion Cake / Buwei Yang Chao -- Strange Case of Mr. Palliser's Palate / Ogden Nash -- from Fifth Chinese Daughter / Jade Snow Wong -- from A Walker in the City / Alfred Kazin -- from Papa's Table d'Hote / Maria Sermolino -- Almond Cake or Torte / Irma Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker -- from Invisible Man / Ralph Ellison -- Gazpacho / Helen Evans Brown -- Food in the United States in 1934 and 1935 / Alice B. Toklas -- Pineapple Pie / Carey D. Miller, Katherine Bazore and Mary Bartow -- Sukiyaki on the Kona Coast / May Sarton -- from A Flower for My Mother / Clementine Paddleford -- from Good Cooksmanship, or How to Talk a Good Fight / Peg Bracken -- Toward Fried Chicken / John Berry -- Southern Fried Chicken (with Giblet Gravy) / William Styron -- Pancakes / Evan Hunter -- from The Modest Threshold / A.J. Liebling -- How to Cook a Carp / Euell Gibbons -- Dinner at the Pavillon / Joseph Wechsberg -- Gumbo Cult / Eugene Walter -- Baked Beans / John Gould -- from Delights and Prejudices / James Beard -- Beef Stroganoff / James Beard -- from Soul Food / Langston Hughes -- Vichyssoise / Michael Field -- Soul Food / LeRoi Jones -- Tunnel of Fudge Cake / Ella Rita Helfrich -- from Oranges / John McPhee -- How To Make Stew in the Pinacate Desert: Recipe for Locke & Drum / Gary Snyder -- About the Television Series / Julia Child -- Coq au Vin / Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle and Simone Beck -- Food Establisbment: Life In the Land of the Rising Souffle (Or Is It the Rising Meringue?) / Nora Ephron -- Lessons in Humility and Chutzpah / Gael Greene -- Zucchini Quiche / Anna Thomas -- Techniques of the Kitchen-The Making of a Cook / Roy Andries de Groot -- Moong Dal / Madhur Jaffrey -- from Simple French Food / Richard Olney -- Chicken Tagine with Chick-peas / Paula Wolfert -- Traveling Man's Burden / Calvin Trillin -- Risotto Alla Parmigiana / Marcella Hazan -- Just a Quiet Dinner for Two in Paris: 31 Dishes, Nine Wines, a $4,000 Check / Craig Claiborne -- Francs and Beans / Russell Baker -- from Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonalds / Ray Kroc -- Morning-After-Hog-Butchering Breakfast / Edna Lewis -- Original Old-Fashioned Yankee Clambake / Raymond Sokolov -- Anthropology of Table Manners from Geophagy Onward / Guy Davenport -- Blessed Are We Who Serve / James Villas -- Chicken Marbella / Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins -- from Eating Together: Recipes & Recollections / Lillian Hellman and Peter Feibleman -- Gillette's / Waverley Root -- Kitchen Horrors / Laurie Colwin -- from Meatless Days / Sara Suleri -- from Monifold Destiny / Chris Maynard and Bill Scheller -- Pleasures of Eating / Wendell Berry -- Farm-Restaurant Connection / Alice Waters -- Where Is the Grease of Yesteryear? / Daniel Pinkwater -- Philadelphia Pepperpot Soup / Sheila Ferguson -- Primal Bread / Jeffrey Steingarten -- Mama Menudo / Ray Gonzalez -- Enough Jam for a Lifetime / Maxine Kumin -- Yellowfin Tuna Burgers With Ginger-Mustard Glaze / Danny Meyer and Michael Romano -- Do Women Like to Cook? / Laura Shapiro -- from Recipe of Memory / Victor M. Valle and Mary Lau Valle -- Toll House Cookie / John Thorne -- Boiled Chicken Feet and Hundred-Year-Old Eggs: Poor Chinese Feasting / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Creole Gumbo / Howard Mitcham -- Adultery / Judith Moore -- from My Kitchen Wars / Betty Fussell -- Dinner Rites / Rick Bragg -- Steamed Pork Loaf with Salted Duck Eggs / Ken Hom -- Breath of a Wok / Grace Young -- from Kitchen Confidential / Anthony Bourdain -- Today's Special / David Sedaris -- Indian Takeout / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Hersheyettes / Patricia Volk -- from Fast Food Nation / Eric Schlosser -- Cheese: Cindy and David Major, Vermont / Corby Kummer -- from Coming Home to Eat / Gary Paul Nabhan -- Celebrations of Thanksgiving: Cuban Seasonings / Ana Menendez -- Lady Bird Johnson's Pedernales Chili / Robb Walsh -- from Looking for Umami / Ruth Reichl -- My Organic Industrial Meal / Michael Pollan -- Sources and Acknowledgments. |
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