Twain's Feast - Andrew Beahrs [138]
Finally, I have to acknowledge my great gratitude to Samuel Clemens for his lifetime of inspiring work. His words are as full of life as when he wrote them; the world is a better place for having had him in it.
NOTES
vii “If I have a talent” Mark Twain, Mark Twain’s Notebooks & Journals, vol. 2 (1877-1883), Frederick Anderson, Lin Salamo, and Bernard L. Stein, eds. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975), 204.
INTRODUCTION
1 “as tasteless as paper” Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad (1880; New York: Modern Library, 2003), 291.
1 monotonous, a hollow sham Ibid., 289-91.
2 “suddenly sweeping down” Ibid., 291.
3 hung in a cool, dry spot Harold McGee, On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen (New York: Scribner, 2004), 143-45.
4 a simple, imperious “try it” John Hammond Moore, The Confederate Housewife (Columbia, SC: Summerhouse Press, 1997).
5 Recipe for German Coffee Twain, A Tramp Abroad, 294.
5 diluting single cans Twain, Notebooks & Journals, vol. 2, 104.
5 “maybe they can’t give good milk” Ibid.
5 a temperature as high as 171 degrees McGee, On Food and Cooking, 22.
6 “so rich and thick that you could hardly have strained it” Mark Twain, “Early Rising, as Regards Excursions to the Cliff House,” first appeared in the Golden Era, July 3, 1864; reprinted in The Washoe Giant in San Francisco: Being Heretofore Uncollected Sketches by Mark Twain Published in the Golden Era in the Sixties, Frank Walker, ed. (San Francisco: George Fields, 1938), 87.
6 “This tea isn’t good” Twain, Notebooks & Journals, vol. 2, 87.
7 1840, reputedly when Alan Davidson, The Penguin Companion to Food (New York: Penguin, 1999), 1022.
8 “Radishes. Baked apples, with cream” Twain, A Tramp Abroad, 292-93.
10 “earnest” and “generous,” “genuine” and “real” Ibid., 290-93.
11 “insipid” or “decayed” Ibid., 292.
11 “perfection only in New Orleans” Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi (1883; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 446.
11 “It makes me cry to think of them” Mark Twain, The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Charles Neider, ed. (1956; New York: HarperCollins, 1990), 5.
12 “use a club, and avoid” Twain, A Tramp Abroad, 294.
12 “the way that the things were cooked” Twain, Autobiography, 14.
12 “Open air sleeping” Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980), 108.
12 “nothing helps scenery like ham and eggs” Mark Twain, Roughing It, Harriet Elinor Smith and Edgar Marquess Branch, eds. (1872; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), 121.
12 the invention of Saratoga potatoes Ron Powers, Mark Twain: A Life (New York: Free Press, 2005), 64.
13 “As a nation, their food is heavy” James Fenimore Cooper, The American Democrat (Cooperstown, NY: H. & E. Finney, 1838), 164.
13 “Cooper’s eye was splendidly inaccurate” Mark Twain, “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses,” in Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, 1891-1910 (essay first published 1895; New York: Library of America, 1992), 184.
1. IT MAKES ME CRY TO THINK OF THEM: PRAIRIE-HENS, FROM ILLINOIS
16 “The fountains of the deep have broken up” Samuel Langhorne Clemens (SLC) to William Bowen, Feb. 6, 1870, Buffalo, NY, in Mark Twain’s Letters, 1870-1871, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, and Lin Salamo, eds. Mark Twain Project Online (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995, 2007), www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL02464.xml;style=letter;brand=mtp, accessed Oct. 20, 2009.
16 “a level great prairie” Twain, Autobiography, 13.
16 Ducks and geese, wild turkeys Ibid., 5.
16 “I can call back the prairie” Ibid., 16.
17 “I remember . . . how we turned out” Ibid., 19-20.
18 Prairie Chickens Estelle Woods Wilcox, Buckeye Cookery and Practical Housekeeping (1877; Bedford,