Twain's Feast - Andrew Beahrs [145]
120 “Oysters in the shell” Wilcox, Buckeye Cookery, 258.
120 an Indiana cook to declare a sauce A. M. Collins, The Great Western Cookbook, or Table Receipts, Adapted to Western Housewifery (New York: A. S. Barnes, 1857), 36.
120 “a more used-up, hungrier” Powers, Mark Twain, 363.
121 “this delicious article of food” Barrett, “The California Oyster Industry,” 21.
121 champagne and pickled-oyster stew Twain, Autobiography, 136.
122 to bail out prostitutes Muscatine, Old San Francisco, 131.
122 “people who are unaccustomed” Mitchell, “Old Mr. Flood,” 388.
123 Oyster Loaves Jane Cunningham Croly, Jennie June’s American Cookery Book (New York: American News, 1870), 76.
123 “as the Americans assert” Marryat, A Diary in America, 36.
123 “the Northern oyster has” De Voe, The Market Assistant, 306.
124 “balances the saltiness” Jaimarie Pomo, The Hog Island Oyster Lover’s Cookbook (Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 2007), 35.
124 “no relation at all to the taste, if there is one” Eleanor Clarke, The Oysters of Locmariaquer (New York: Pantheon, 1966), 6.
125 24 billion gallons John Hart, San Francisco Bay: Portrait of an Estuary (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 1.
125 a new North Beach bathing house Mark Twain: San Francisco Correspondent, Henry Nash Smith and Frederick Anderson, eds. (San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1957), 55.
126 a cruise to Oakland, or San Leandro, or Alameda SLC to Pamela A. Moffett, May18?, 1863, San Francisco, Mark Twain’s Letters, 1853-1866, Mark Twain Project Online, www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL00065.xml;style=letter;brand=mtp, accessed Dec. 15, 2008.
126 trawlers, feluccas Muscatine, Old San Francisco, 224.
126 oyster omelets Clarence E. Edwords, Bohemian San Francisco: Its Restaurants and Their Most Famous Recipes (1914; San Francisco: Silhouette Press, 1973), 60.
126 Ed Ricketts Edward F. Ricketts and Jack Calvin, Between Pacific Tides (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1939), 253.
126 “the small-shelled oysters” Wilcox, Buckeye Cookery, 258.
127 six hundred bushels Barrett, “The California Oyster Industry,” 22.
127 huge floods flushed the bay Ibid.
127 “far superior to the poor” Mark Twain: San Francisco Correspondent, 85.
127 a sailboat could arrive from Washington Ibid.
128 “in San Francisco you earn” W. Mackay Laffan, “Canvas-Back and Terrapin,” Scribner’s Monthly 15, no. 1 (Nov. 1877), 1.
128 “the slightly coppery taste” Edwords, Bohemian San Francisco, 60.
129 “had abused the Scoofy oysters” Mark Twain: San Francisco Correspondent, 84.
129 Roast Oysters in the Shell Fanny Lemira Gillette, White House Cook Book (Chicago: R. S. Peale, 1887), 63.
130 “After a few months’ acquaintance” Twain, A Tramp Abroad, 3.
131 “we could scarcely see” Twain, The Washoe Giant in San Francisco, 87-88.
132 look pretty monotonous Anne Wertheim Rosenfeld, The Intertidal Wilderness: A Photographic Journey Through Pacific Coast Tidepools (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), 36; see also Ricketts and Calvin, Between Pacific Tides, 396.
133 To Stew Oysters Carter, The Frugal Housewife, 91.
133 Four hundred such shell mounds Hart, San Francisco Bay, 17-20.
134 A day’s haul Edwords, Bohemian San Francisco, 76-77.
134 fishermen never used ice Muscatine, Old San Francisco, 227.
134 some fifty large anchovies Myrtle Elizabeth Johnson and Harry James Snook, Seashore Animals of the Pacific Coast (New York: Dover, 1955), 427.
134 venison, bear Muscatine, Old San Francisco, 132; see also Andrew Neal Cohen, An Introduction to the Ecology of the San Francisco Bay, 2nd ed. (Save San Francisco Bay Association, San Francisco Estuary Project, June 1991), 8.
135 nearly eight hundred ships in the cove Muscatine, Old San Francisco, 109.
135 One of the town’s first Italian restaurants Ibid., 110.
136 Much of the Gold Rush consisted Walton Bean and James J. Rawls, California: An Interpretive History, 4th ed. (New York: McGraw Hill, 1983), 92-93; see also S. T. Harding, Water in California (Palo Alto, CA: N-P Publications,