Twain's Feast - Andrew Beahrs [149]
198 rain falling in part of twenty-eight states Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 22.
198 a miserly three inches John M. Berry, Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), 7.
198 René-Robert de La Salle Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 25.
198 “We’ll creep through cracks” Ibid., 125.
198 “swinging grape-vines” Ibid., 134.
198 “like Satan’s own kitchen” Ibid., 136-38.
199 “solid mile” Ibid., 254.
199 “One who knows the Mississippi” Ibid., 302.
199 “pulling the river’s teeth” Ibid., 300.
199 “two-thousand-mile torch-light procession” Ibid., 295.
200 “Here was a thing which had not changed” Ibid., 252.
200 “much the youthfulest batch” Ibid., 23.
200 For seven thousand years Gay Gomez, The Louisiana Coast: Guide to an American Wetland (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008), 19-21.
201 The equivalent of Manhattan Ibid., 26.
201 during the 1880s Tidwell, Bayou Farewell, 129.
201 Army Corps of Engineers’ dikes Ibid., 31; for more details on the era’s engineering of the river, see Berry, Rising Tide.
201 century-old grid of oil-company Christopher Hallowell, Holding Back the Sea: The Struggle on the Gulf Coast to Save America (New York: Harper Perennial, 2001), 17.
202 the GPS of one shrimping boat Tidwell, Bayou Farewell, 178.
202 fish, crab, and shrimp thrive Ibid., 140, 265-67.
202 Every 2.7 miles Ibid., 57; see also Hallowell, Holding Back the Sea.
202 Third Delta Conveyance Channel Ibid., 183-89.
203 “myriad small islands” Ibid., 313.
204 “scoundrels” Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 412-14.
204 “to see what the polar regions” Ibid., 409.
205 “The chief dish” Ibid., 445-46.
205 wheat had ceased to be a luxury in the South Joe Gray Taylor, “Foodways,” in The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol. 2: Ethnic Life-Law, Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris, eds. (New York: Anchor, 1989), 362.
206 “glorious with the general diffusion” Christian Women’s Exchange, Creole Cookery (1885; Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing, 2005), iii.
206 peddlers walked the streets Hearn, Creole Cook Book, unnumbered preface.
206 “a very choice market for fish” Twain, Notebooks & Journals, vol. 2, 554.
206 Croakers and Mullets Fried Hearn, Creole Cook Book, 23.
215 Sheepshead à la Créole Picayune’s Creole Cook Book, 43.
215 “Everything was changed in Hannibal” Twain, Notebooks & Journals, vol. 2, 479.
216 “That world which I knew” Emerson, Mark Twain: A Literary Life, 138.
7. IT IS MY THANKSGIVING DAY: CRANBERRIES
217 “a vast roast turkey” Twain, A Tramp Abroad, 292.
218 “most villainous sauce” Anonymous, “Memoir on the Consumption of Cranberry Sauce,” in William Tudor, Miscellanies (Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1821), 19-21.
219 Henry Hall Christy Lowrance, “From Swamps to Yards,” in Cranberry Harvest: A History of Cranberry Growing in Massachusetts, Joseph D. Thomas, ed. (New Bedford, MA: Spinner Publications, 1990), 14.
219 the Andean highlands Jonathan Roberts, The Origins of Fruits and Vegetables (New York: Universe Publishing, 2001), 187.
219 Sanding, whether done on Carolyn DeMoranville and Hilary Sandler, “Best Management Practices Guide: Sanding,” Cranberry Experiment Station Publication, 2000, www.umass.edu/cranberry/services/bmp/sanding.shtml.
219 carefully dug from wild bogs Paul Eck, The American Cranberry (New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1990), 69-71.
220 To Stuff and Roast a Turkey Simmons, American Cookery, 18.
220 “Thanksgiving Day” SLC to Mary Mason Fairbanks, Nov. 26-27, 1868, Elmira, NY, in Mark Twain’s Letters, 1867-1868. Harriet Elinor Smith, Richard Bucci, and Lin Salamo, eds. Mark Twain Project Online (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), www.marktwainproject.org/xtf/view?docId=letters/UCCL02767.xml;style=letter;brand=mtp, accessed Nov. 27, 2009.
221 Friday-night billiards Mary Lawton, A Lifetime with Mark Twain: The Memories of Katy Leary, for Thirty Years His Faithful and Devoted Servant (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1925),