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136 some 1.5 billion Ibid.
137 an 1884 lawsuit Harding, Water in California, 57.
137 train-car loads Barrett, “The California Oyster Industry,” 27.
137 2.5 million pounds of oyster meat Fred S. Conte, “California Oyster Culture,” in California Aquaculture (UC Davis Department of Animal Science, 1996), 1-3.
138 “Mr. Taft’s beds” Jack London, “A Raid on the Oyster Pirates,” in Tales of the Fish Patrol (Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2005), 27-40.
138 two hundred thousand fish Cohen, An Introduction to the Ecology of the San Francisco Bay, 2.
138 The bay fishery for crabs Hart, San Francisco Bay, 120.
139 some fisheries do survive Ibid., 12.
139 Oyster Soup Mary Randolph, The Virginia Housewife (Baltimore: Plaskitt, Fite, 1838), 16.
140 earliest oyster pens Christine Sculati, “Still Hanging On: The Bay’s Native Oysters,” Bay Nature, Oct. 2004.
142 “Methinks a toddy, piping hot” Twain, The Washoe Giant in San Francisco, 50.
143 “repackage” some of the nutrients Ibid.
144 describing oyster beds under the heading Mark Twain, “How I Edited an Agricultural Paper Once,” in Collected Tales, 1852-1890, 412-17.
144 To Boil a Shoulder Esther Allen Howland, The New England Economical Housekeeper (Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1845), 57.
5. DINNER WAS LEISURELY SERVED: PHILADELPHIA TERRAPIN
148 Canadians used the crustaceans Farley Mowat, Sea of Slaughter (Toronto: Bantam, 1984), 200.
148 “signs of poverty” Ibid.
148 the first lobsters sent from New York Williams, Food in the United States, 28.
149 two average lobsters Mowat, Sea of Slaughter, 201.
150 “laying claim to being a pretentious affair” “A Talk About Terrapins: How Maryland’s Favorite Delicacy Is Obtained and Stewed,” New York Times, Dec. 5, 1880 (repr. Washington Post), p. 9.
150 Terrapin Clear Soup Corson, Practical American Cookery, 192.
151 Diamondback terrapins rule Barbara Brennessel, Diamonds in the Marsh: A Natural History of the Diamondback Terrapin (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2006), 3-42.
151 “Terrapin” is a corruption Brennessel, Diamonds in the Marsh, 137.
151 North Carolinians tracked “Hunting for Terrapin: A Profitable Industry Along the Chesapeake,” New York Times, Nov. 20, 1892, p. 9.
152 Chesapeake tribes such as the Delaware Brennessel, Diamonds in the Marsh, 137.
152 “an art about making terrapin” “A Talk About Terrapins,” New York Times, Dec. 5, 1880.
152 “original bandana-crowned” “Hints for the Household: Miss Corson’s Lecture on the Cooking of Terrapin,” New York Times, Mar. 13, 1881, p. 9.
152 “require[d] the native born culinary genius of the African” Ward McAllister, “Success in Entertaining,” from Society as I Have Found It, excerpted in O’Neill, American Food Writing, 99.
152 “raised their voices in loud complaint” “Terrapin Season Begun,” New York Times, Nov. 6, 1898 (repr. Baltimore Sun), p. 6.
153 Lafayette’s love for the dish Evan Jones, American Food: The Gastronomic Story (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1990), 53.
153 “Turttle, and every other Thing” John Adams, Journal entry for Sept. 22, 1774, online at www.masshist.org/digitaladams/aea/diary, accessed Dec. 27, 2008.
153 “precious cordial” “Hints for the Household,” New York Times.
153 Stewed Terrapin Gillette, White House Cook Book, 58.
155 “something more than a human” Quoted in Powers, Mark Twain, 213.
155 artists, social reformers, and writers Ibid., 251.
155 “The Facts Concerning” Everett Emerson, Mark Twain: A Literary Life (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000), 105-6.
155 under the name Sam Clemens Ibid.
155 “row of venerable and still active” From autobiographical dictations in Jan. 1906, quoted in Mark Twain: Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and Other Speeches, Charles Neider, ed. (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2000), 56.
156 the evening’s menu Boston Daily Globe, Dec. 18, 1877. Online at http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/onstage/whitnews.html.
158 ice-cream knives and fish cutters Susan Williams, Savory Suppers and Fashionable Feasts: Dining in Victorian America (New York: Pantheon, 1985), 87-90.
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