Twain's Feast - Andrew Beahrs [147]
158 “I didn’t know enough to give it up” From autobiographical dictations in Jan. 1906, 57.
159 “Bishop was away up” Twain, “Whittier Birthday Speech,” 57.
160 “high-flavored Nevada delirium” Powers, Mark Twain, 411.
160 “I feel my misfortune” Emerson, Mark Twain: A Literary Life, 110.
160 Maryland Terrapins Carrie V. Shuman, Favorite Dishes (Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1893), 43.
161 “been agitated for thirty years” Quoted in O’Neill, American Food Writing, 101.
161 Colonel John Forney John Forney, “Terrapin,” in The Epicure, quoted in Williams, Food in the United States, 119.
161 met before an impartial jury Jones, American Food, 53.
161 “contained the meat, hearts and livers” Joseph Mitchell, “The Same as Monkey Glands,” in Up in the Old Hotel, 322.
162 Amelia Simmons had begun Amelia Simmons, American Cookery (Hartford, CT: Hudson and Goodwin, 1796); facsimile in The First American Cookbook (New York: Oxford University Press: 1958), 20-22.
162 “no longer used in cooking” Gillette, White House Cook Book, 57.
162 Baltimore’s Hotel Rennert Michael W. Fincham, “The Men Who Would Be Kings: How Grand Plans for the Terrapin Went Somewhat Awry,” Chesapeake Quarterly, Dec. 2008. Online at www.mdsg.umd.edu/cq/v07n4/main2/.
162 “very small raw oysters” SLC to Olivia L. Clemens, Nov. 18,1885, Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Manuscript Letters Now in the Mark Twain Papers, Mark Twain Project, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
163 “There is no need to prepare” Laffan, “Canvas-back and Terrapin,” 10.
163 “as national a dish as canvasback” Quoted in O’Neill, American Food Writing, 99.
163 “the great delicacies in America” Marryat, A Diary in America, 36.
163 “necessary to a very swell dinner” “Canvas-Back Duck Trust: No Monopoly in Terrapin Possible,” New York Times, Feb. 5, 1888, p. 10.
163 baby mushrooms Mitchell, “The Same as Monkey Glands,” 322.
163 A recent Baltimore Sun article Arthur Hirsch, “These Terrapin Aren’t So Popular,” Baltimore Sun, Mar. 26, 2003, p. 1F.
164 “if there was a better way of taking away her life” “Hints for the Household,” New York Times, p. 9.
164 “be careful not to cut off their heads” Shuman, Favorite Dishes, 43.
165 “Even a pinprick of gall” “A Talk About Terrapins,” New York Times.
165 “Here was your terrapin” “Hints for the Household,” New York Times.
165 “A little gall does not impair” Jones, American Food, 53.
165 the ideal Maryland winter dinner “A Talk About Terrapins,” New York Times.
165 “after his second spoonful” “Hints for the Household,” New York Times.
166 “One feels so cowed, at home” Twain, Notebooks & Journals, vol. 2, 56.
166 “It will not do for me to find merit” Twain, A Tramp Abroad, 275-76.
166 “There are artists in Arkansas” Twain, Notebooks & Journals, vol. 2, 191.
166 “a luxury which very seldom” Twain, A Tramp Abroad, 290.
167 “made a rare & valuable” Twain, Notebooks & Journals, vol. 2, 192.
167 Rhine wine from vinegar Twain, A Tramp Abroad, 64.
167 “we bought a bottle or so of beer” Ibid., 196.
167 Emmentaler cheese Twain, Notebooks & Journals, vol. 2, 195.
167 green, egg-size plums Twain, A Tramp Abroad, 58.
167 German pears, cherries Twain, Notebooks & Journals, vol. 2, 273.
167 “we had such a beautiful day” Twain, A Tramp Abroad, 171.
168 “There is no pleasanter place” Ibid., 64.
168 “poor cheap 2d hand meats” Twain, Notebooks & Journals, vol. 2, 315.
168 “Short visits to Europe” Twain, A Tramp Abroad, 297.
168 “Ah for a hot biscuit” Twain, Notebooks & Journals, vol. 2, 272.
169 Calf ’s Head Fannie Merritt Farmer, The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (Boston: Little, Brown, 1896), 187.
171 “there are whole banks of them” Robert A. Hedeen, The Oyster: The Life and Lore of the Celebrated Bivalve (Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1986), 6.
171 a female can store sperm Brennessel, Diamonds in the Marsh, 80.
173 “one may commit murder, steal a horse” Washington