American Food Writing: An Anthology With Classic Recipes (hardcover)

Pehr Kalm
from Travels into North America

Thomas Jefferson
Ice cream

Joel Barlow
from The Hasty-Pudding

Amelia Simmons
Johny Cake, or Hoe Cake

Meriwether Lewis
from The Journals of Lewis & Clark

John Pintard
Letters to His Daughter, 1819-32

John M. Duncan
A Virginia Barbecue

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Exploit of the Professor

Lydia Maria Child
To make a chowder

Frederick Marryat
from A Diary in America

Eliza Leslie
Potted Lobster

Nathaniel Hawthorne
This Day's Food

James M. Sanderson
Above All Other Birds

Sarah Rutledge
To Dress Macaroni à la Sauce Blanche

George G. Foster
The Eating-Houses

Tunis G. Campbell
To Make Corn Bread

Herman Melville
Chowder

Annabella P. Hill
Peach Leather

Henry David Thoreau
Bread
Watermelons

Esther Levy
Irish Potato Pudding

Frederick Douglass
from My Bondage and My Freedom

George Martin Lane
The Lay of the One Fish Ball

Marion Harland (Mary Virginia Terhune)
Tomato Catsup

Henry Ward Beecher
Apple-Pie

National Cookery Book
A Michigan Receipt for Making Shortcake in Camp

Walt Whitman
A Great Treat of Ice Cream

Estelle Woods Wilcox, comp.
Hayes Cake and Tilden Cake

Harriet Beecher Stowe
from Cookery

Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland
Mother's Rice Pudding

Randolph Harrison
from The Philosophy of Frying

Marion Cabell Tyree
Meat-flavoring

George Augustus Sala
The Tyranny of Pie

Emily Dickinson
Black Cake

Frank Hamilton Cushing
from Zuñi Breadstuff

Abby Fisher
Chicken Croquettes

John Burroughs
My Sugar-Making Days

Mary Lincoln
Chicken Chartreuse

Ward Mcallister
Success in Entertaining

Mrs. F. L. Gillette & Hugo Ziemann
Roman Punch No.1 and No. 2

Henry Adams
from History of the United States

Mrs. E. E. Kellogg
Bran Jelly

Charles Ranhofer
from The Epicurean

Charles Ranhofer
Lobster à la Newberg or Delmonico

Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Spring Chicken

Fannie Merritt Farmer
Eggs à la Goldenrod

Annie D. Tallent
Bill of Fare on the Plains

Henrietta Sowle
from I Go A-Marketing

Sarah Tyson Rorer
Hamburg Steak

The Picayune's Creole Cook Book
Calas

Cranberry Sauce

Paul Laurence Dunbar
Possum

Lizzie Kander
Matzos Pudding

Owen Johnson
from The Great Pancake Record

Hester Price
Old-Fashioned Hickory Nut Cake

Edna Ferber
from Maymeys from Cuba

Mrs. John E. Cooke
Perfection Salad

Mary Antin
from The Promised Land

Rufus Estes
Baked Bananas, Porto Rican Fashion

Clarence E. Edwords
Around Little Italy

Willa Cather
from My Àntonia

Edith M. Thomas
Bucks County Apple Butter

H.L. Mencken
The Home of the Crab
Hot Dogs

George Washington Carver
Puree of Peanuts Number Two (Extra Fine)

Sheila Hibben
Eating American

Sheila Hibben
Cape Cod Turkey (Stuffed Codfish)

Thomas Wolfe
from Of Time and the River

Isabel Ely Lord
Nut Loaf

Gertrude Stein
from American Food and American Houses

Beverly Hills Woman's Club
Chop Suey

John Steinbeck
Breakfast

Kenneth Roberts
from Down-East Ambrosia

Rex Stout
Planked Porterhouse Steak

Joseph Mitchell
Mr. Barbee's Terrapin

Nelson Algren
from America Eats

M. F. K. Fisher
A Lusty Bit of Nourishment
Define This Word

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
from Cross Creek Cookery

Samuel Chamberlain
from Clémentine in the Kitchen

Jerre Mangione
from Mount Allegro

S.J. Perelman
Avocado, or The Future of Eating

Betty MacDonald
That Infernal Machine, the Pressure Cooker

Buwei Yang Chao
Fried Scallion Cake

Ogden Nash
The Strange Case of Mr. Palliser's Palate

Jade Snow Wong
from Fifth Chinese Daughter

Alfred Kazin
from A Walker in the City

Maria Sermolino
from Papa's Table d'Hýte

Irma Rombauer & Marion Rombauer Becker
Almond Cake or Torte

Ralph Ellison
from Invisible Man

Helen Evans Brown
Gazpacho

Alice B. Toklas
Food in the United States in 1934 and 1935

Carey D. Miller, Katherine Bazore, Mary Bartow
Pineapple Pie

May Sarton
Sukiyaki on the Kona Coast

Clementine Paddleford
from A Flower for My Mother

Peg Bracken
from Good Cooksmanship, or How to Talk a Good Fight

John Berry
Toward Fried Chicken

William Styron
Southern Fried Chicken (with Giblet Gravy)

Evan Hunter
Pancakes

A.J. Liebling
from The Modest Threshold

Euell Gibbons
How to Cook a Carp

Joseph Wechsberg
Dinner at the Pavillon

Eugene Walter
The Gumbo Cult

John Gould
Baked Beans

James Beard
from Delights and Prejudices

Beef Stroganoff

Langston Hughes
from Soul Food

Michael Field
Vichyssoise

Leroi Jones
Soul Food

Ella Rita Helfrich
Tunnel of Fudge Cake

John Mcphee
from Oranges

Gary Snyder
How to Make Stew in the Pinacate Desert: Recipe for Locke & Drum

Julia Child
About the Television Series

Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, & Simone Beck
Coq au Vin

Nora Ephron
The Food Establishment: Life in the Land of the Rising Soufflé (Or Is It the Rising Meringue?)

Gael Greene
Lessons in Humility and Chutzpah

Anna Thomas
Zucchini Quiche

Roy Andries De Groot
The Techniques of the Kitchen-The Making of a Cook

Madhur Jaffrey
Moong Da

Richard Olney
from Simple French Food

Paula Wolfert
Chicken Tagine with Chick-Peas

Calvin Trillin
The Traveling Man's Burden

Marcella Hazan
Risotto alla parmigiana

Craig Claiborne
Just a Quiet Dinner for Two in Paris: 31 Dishes, Nine Wines, a $4,000 Check

Russell Baker
Francs and Beans

Ray Kroc
from Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's

Edna Lewis
Morning-After-Hog-Butchering Breakfast

Raymond Sokolov
An Original Old-Fashioned Yankee Clambake

Guy Davenport
The Anthropology of Table Manners from Geophagy Onward

James Villas
Blessed Are We Who Serve

Julee Rosso & Sheila Lukins
Chicken Marbella

Lillian Hellman & Peter Feibleman
from Eating Together: Recipes & Recollections

Waverley Root
Gillotte's

Laurie Colwin
Kitchen Horrors

Sara Suleri
from Meatless Days

Chris Maynard & Bill Scheller
from Manifold Destiny

Wendell Berry
The Pleasures of Eating

Alice Waters
The Farm-Restaurant Connection

Daniel Pinkwater
Where Is the Grease of Yesteryear

Sheila Ferguson
Philadelphia Pepperpot Soup

Jeffrey Steingarten
Primal Bread

Ray Gonzalez
Mama Menudo

Maxine Kumin
Enough Jam for a Lifetime

Danny Meyer & Michael Romano
Yellowfin Tuna Burgers with Ginger-Mustard Glaze

Laura Shapiro
Do Women Like To Cook?

Victor M. Valle & Mary Lau Valle
from Recipe of Memory: Five Generations of Mexican Cuisine

John Thorne
The Toll House Cookie

Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
Boiled Chicken Feet and Hundred-Year-Old Eggs: Poor Chinese Feasting

Howard Mitcham
Creole Gumbo

Judith Moore
Adultery

Betty Fussell
from My Kitchen Wars

Rick Bragg
Dinner Rites

Ken Hom
Steamed Pork Loaf with Salted Duck Eggs

Grace Young
The Breath of a Wok

Anthony Bourdain
from Kitchen Confidential

David Sedaris
Today's Special

Jhumpa Lahiri
Indian Takeout

Patricia Volk
from Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family

Eric Schlosser
from Fast Food Nation

Corby Kummer
Cheese: Cindy and David Major, Vermont

Gary Paul Nabhan
from Coming Home To Eat

Ana Menéndez
Celebrations of Thanksgiving: Cuban Seasonings

Robb Walsh
Lady Bird Johnson's Pedernales Chili

Ruth Reichl
from Looking for Umami

Michael Pollan
My Organic Industrial Meal

Sources and Acknowledgments

Index of Authors

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