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175 Italy’s Queen Margaret “Maryland Dishes for Rome,” New York Times, Dec. 3, 1897, p. 1.
175 list of their individual characteristics Brennessel, Diamonds in the Marsh, 11.
176 “only flesh known” “Terrapin Culture,” New York Times, Dec. 26, 1897 (repr. Baltimore Sun), p. 9.
176 commanded ninety dollars a dozen “Chesapeake Bay Terrapin,” New York Times, Apr. 1, 1894, p. 21.
176 The official 1891 harvest Meyer, “Easy Come, Easy Go.”
176 Baltimore’s Hotel Rennert Fincham, “The Men Who Would Be Kings.”
176 well-known Baltimore gourmet “Chesapeake Bay Terrapin,” New York Times.
176 “a delusion and a snare” “Canvas-Back Duck Trust,” New York Times, Feb. 5, 1888.
176 no more than fifteen thousand “Terrapin Season Begun,” New York Times.
176 “there ain’t nobody in a hundred” Ibid.
177 “I am constantly surprised” “Chesapeake Bay Terrapin,” New York Times.
178 Genuine bluepoint oysters Vileisis, Kitchen Literacy, 62-63.
178 some of the many substitutions Ibid., 60-63.
181 “tangled, inextricable confusion” Twain, Autobiography, 232.
181 a culture that treats foods as medicines Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, 1-3.
181 “it is a pity” Twain, Autobiography, 6.
182 “Dear Mrs. H—” Twain, Notebooks & Journals, vol. 2, 204.
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183 “told an astonishing tale of coca” Mark Twain, “‘The Turning Point of My Life,’” in Collected Tales, 1891-1910, 932.
183 “the concentrated bread & meat of the tribes” Unpublished sketch, quoted in Emerson, Mark Twain: A Literary Life, 9.
183 “discovered that there weren’t any” Twain, Autobiography, 128.
184 the nine or ten Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 79.
184 “I thought I had seen all kinds” SLC to Ann E. Taylor, June 1, 1857, New Orleans, Mark Twain’s Letters, 1853-1866, Mark Twain Project Online, www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL00013.xml;style=letter;brand=mtp, accessed May 5, 2009.
185 some two hundred steamers Details on steamboating from Rasmussen, Mark Twain A-Z, 440-42.
185 “the only unfettered” Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 166.
185 “a wonderful book” Ibid., 118.
186 “My nightmares, to this day” Twain, Notebooks & Journals, vol. 2, 449-50.
186 nearly a thousand boats Powers, Mark Twain, 79.
186 Ten of the fifteen Ibid.
186 back into the New Orleans levee Ibid., 94.
187 “A broad expanse of the river” Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 119.
188 “Yesterday I had many things to do” SLC to Orion Clemens, Sept. 29, 1860, New Orleans, Mark Twain’s Letters, 1853-1866, Mark Twain Project Online, www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL00025.xml;style=letter;brand=mtp, accessed May 5, 2009.
188 if all of Louisiana’s shrimp survived Mike Tidwell, Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana’s Cajun Coast (New York: Vintage Departures, 2003), 143.
188 “I think that I may say that an American” SLC to Pamela A. Moffett, March 9 and 11, 1859, New Orleans, Mark Twain’s Letters, 1853-1866, Mark Twain Project Online, www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL00019.xml;style=letter;brand=mtp, accessed May 5, 2009.
189 Baked Sheepshead The Picayune’s Creole Cook Book (New Orleans: Picayune, 1901; repr. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2002), 42.
192 fifteen times Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Factsheet, online at www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/SeafoodWatch/web/sfw_factsheet.aspx?fid=245.
193 replacement for speckled trout Rima and Richard Collin, The New Orleans Cookbook (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994), 83.
193 frying the center bones Ibid., 89.
193 “any sauce or catsup” Hearn, Creole Cook Book, 23-24.
195 buy one broiled for thirty-five cents William Head Coleman, Historical Sketchbook & Guide to New Orleans (New York: W. H. Coleman, 1885), 86.
195 “the most to be commended” Picayune’s Creole Cook Book, 42.
196 “the mode in which New Orleans” Quoted in Coleman, Historical Sketchbook, 85.
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