Cover -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- The Recipes -- Conrad Aiken -- Scrapple -- Bronson and Louisa May Alcott -- Berry Pudding Without Eggs -- Biscuit Without Milk -- Cake Without Eggs -- Ginger Snaps -- Graham Cake -- Tomato Catsup -- Horatio Alger, Jr. -- Egg Plant Pilau -- Graham Muffins -- David Amram -- Omelette -- Rudolfo Anaya -- Sardinas de Lata (Sardines from the Can) -- Sherwood Anderson -- Baked Ham -- Anonymous -- Boston Brown Bread -- Breakfast Dish -- Cheese Relish -- Chowder, an Old Recipe -- Colonial Punch -- Corn Bread -- Corn Pone -- Eve's Pudding -- Oatmeal Pudding -- Old Virginia Mince Pie -- Oyster Cocktail -- Plum Pudding -- Plum Pudding -- Stewed Duck and Peas -- Susan B. Anthony -- Apple Tapioca Pudding -- Catharine Beecher -- Cheapest Beef -- Coffee -- Fish Skin for Coffee -- French Pot au Feu -- Fricassee Chickens -- Mush or Hasty Pudding -- Shoulder of Lamb -- Spanish Olla- Podrida -- Succotash -- Tomato Catsup -- Henry Ward Beecher -- Barbeque -- Biscuits -- Reed-Birds -- Succotash, or Corn and Beans -- Tomatoes -- Turtle Bean Soup -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Brownies -- Lillie Devereux Blake -- Last Century Blackberry Pudding -- Tropic Delicacy -- Edwin Booth-Breakfast at Delmonico's -- Terrine de fois gras (Terrineentière de foies- gras) -- Kay Boyle -- Ratatouille Rowayton -- Oliver Bell Bunce -- Dandelion Wine -- Orange Loaf Cake -- Robert E. Lee Cake -- John Burroughs -- A Frickasie (Colonial Recipe) -- John Cage -- Homemade Bread -- Helen Campbell -- Candied or Crystallized Fruit or Nuts -- Deviled Ham -- Gingersnaps -- Irish Stew -- Tomato Catsup -- Alice Cary and Phoebe Cary -- Boiled Apple Dumplings -- Compote of Apples -- Minced Chicken -- Plum Pudding -- Snow Balls -- Willa Cather -- Christmas Plum Pudding -- Cream Pie -- Raymond Chandler -- Gimlet -- Denise Chávez.

Delfina Spanish-Really Mexican-Rice -- Lydia Maria Child -- Beef -- Currant Wine -- Mince Meat -- Plum Pudding -- Pumpkin and Squash Pie -- Robert P. Tristram Coffin -- Lobster Stew -- John Esten Cooke -- Perfection Salad -- Rose Terry Cooke -- Frizzled Dried Beef -- Scalloped Fish -- Susan Coolidge -- Browned Oysters -- Easy Chicken Salad -- Molasses Pie -- Rhode Island Johnny- Cake -- Spiced Shad -- Squash Pies -- William A. Croffut -- Clam Soup -- Peas Stewed in Cream -- Stuffed Cabbage -- Sweet Pickle -- Bernard DeVoto -- Lobster -- Martinis à la DeVoto -- Charles Dickens-Dinner at Delmonico's -- Aspic of Foies- Gras (Aspic de foie- gras) -- Bécassines (English Snipe, Broiled) -- Consommé à la Sévigné -- Salmon à la Victoria (Saumon à la Victoria) -- Tenderloin of Beef à la Lucullus (Filet de boeuf à la Lucullus) -- Emily Dickinson -- Black Cake -- Chocolate Dessert -- Cocoanut Cake -- Gingerbread -- Dorothy Dix -- Barbequed Chicken -- Abigail Scott Duniway -- Chicken and Gravy as Mother Did It -- Pure Salt Rising Bread -- Transparent Jelly (No. 1) -- Transparent Jelly (No. 2) -- Elizabeth Fries Ellet -- Jugged Hare -- Scotch Haggis -- Seven-Years' Catsup -- Harlan Ellison -- Café Ellison Diabolique -- Nora Ephron -- Mashed Potatoes -- William Faulkner -- Curing Hams Shoulders Bacon -- Hot Toddy -- Erna Fergusson -- Buñuelos or Sopaipillas (Fried Puffs) -- Chile con Carne -- Chiles Rellenos -- Corn Meal Tortillas -- Enchiladas with Flour Tortillas -- Frijoles (Beans) -- Green Corn with Green Chile -- Posole (Hog and Hominy) -- Quesadillas -- Pastels (Pastry) -- Pastelitos -- Tortillas, Corn Meal -- Annie Adams Fields -- French Toast -- Walnut Cake -- Zelda Fitzgerald -- Breakfast -- Benjamin Franklin -- Apple Pudding(Pour faire un pudding de pommes) -- Beer with Essence of Spruce (Maniere defaire de la biere avec de l'essence de spruce).

Broiled Steaks (Tranches de boeuf grillées) -- A Cheap and Good Soup -- Mince Pie (Recette d'un pâté haché) -- Orange Shrub -- Oyster Sauce for Boiled Turkey(Sauce d'huitres pour un dindon bouilli) -- Puff Paste (Pâte feuilletée) -- Rice Pudding Baked(Pour faire un pudding de riz cuit au pour) -- Roast Pig (Pour rôtir un cochon de lait) -- Sauce for Boiled Ducks or Rabbits (Sauce pour des canards ou des lapins bouillis) -- Jessie Benton Frémont -- Ham Bones -- Horace Howard Furness -- Cream Cheese -- Erle Stanley Gardner -- Case of the Caretaker's Cat Cocktail -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Synthetic Quince -- Allen Ginsberg -- Cold Summer Borscht -- Grace Greenwood -- Prune Pudding -- Sarah Josepha Hale -- Chicken Pie -- Puff Paste -- Pumpkin Pie -- Roast Beef -- Roasted Goose -- Roasted Pork -- Roasted Turkey -- Stuffed Loin of Mutton -- Gail Hamilton -- Beaten Biscuit -- Blackberry Jam Cake -- Brown Bread Cakes -- Soft Gingerbread -- Marion Harland -- Arrowroot Blanc- Mange -- Beef Tea -- Boiled Ham -- Broiled Chicken -- Brunswick Stew -- Chicken Jelly -- Chicken Pie -- Country Pork Sausages -- Fried Chicken -- Galantine -- Lobster Chowder -- Mince Pies -- Mother's Crullers -- Omelette aux Fines Herbes -- Peach Marmalade -- Potted Herrings -- Pumpkin Pie -- Ragout of Liver -- Roast Chine -- Roast Duck -- Roast Pig -- Roast Spare Rib -- Roast Turkey -- Strawberry Shortcake -- Sweet Potato Pudding -- Tomato Aspic and Shrimp Salad -- White (Asparagus) Soup -- Harvard Club of New York-Dinner at Delmonico's -- Charlotte Russe -- Consommé Impérial (Consommé à l'Imperiale) -- Potatoes Souffléd (Pommes de terre soufflées) -- Sweetbreads, Parisian Style (Ris de veau à la Parisienne) -- Italian Salad (Salade à l'Italienne) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Corned Beef -- Lafcadio Hearn -- Boston Brown Bread -- Bouille-Abaisse -- Calves' Feet Jelly.

Country Fried Chicken -- Crayfish Bisque -- Gelatine Snow Pudding -- Gumbo of Okra or Filee -- Graham Muffins for Dyspeptics -- Jambalaya of Fowls and Rice -- Mint Juleps -- Pudding -- Rich Wedding Cake or Black Cake -- Tomato Catsup -- Tomato Soup with Vegetables -- Lillian Hellman -- Pot Roast -- Ernest Hemingway -- Bloody Mary -- Chop Suey -- Daiquiri -- Fried Trout -- Picadillo -- John Hersey -- Sliced Steak Sandwich -- Isabella Beecher Hooker -- Soup Regency -- Sponge Cake -- Veal Croquettes -- Robinson Jeffers -- For a Poet's Palate -- Thomas Jefferson -- Apple Toddy -- Ice Cream -- Persimmon Beer -- Ronald Johnson -- Green Chile Sauce -- Huevos Rancheros -- Mexican Summer Soup -- Helen Keller -- Golden Gate Salad -- Jack Kerouac -- Green Pea Soup -- Pâte de Porc Gras -- Caroline Kirkland -- Bread -- Ted Kooser -- How to Make Rhubarb Wine -- Ring Lardner -- Dry Martini -- Harper Lee -- Crackling Bread -- Ursula K. Le Guin -- Crab Nebula -- Líriv Metadí or Valley Succotash -- Primitive Chocolate Mousse -- Elmore Leonard -- Elmore's Southron Breakfast Treats -- Aldo Leopold -- Deer Steaks -- Eliza Leslie -- Beefsteak (Broiled) -- Beefsteak (Fried) -- Catfish Soup -- Fine Puff Paste -- French Mustard -- Green Corn Pudding -- Lemon Pudding -- Lobster -- Maccaroni -- Mock Turtle or Calf 's Head Soup -- Mushroom Catsup -- Pepper Pot -- Pickled Oysters -- Pickled Tomatoes -- Pork and Beans -- Roasted Beef 's Heart -- Stewed Carp -- Tomato Catsup -- Meriwether Lewis and William Clark -- Boudin Blanc (White Buffalo Sausage) -- Olive Logan -- Veal Cutlets in Papillottes (Curl-papers) -- Jack London and Charmian London -- Corned Beef and Cabbage -- Hawaiian Salad -- Italian Spaghetti -- Roast Duck -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Veal Cutlets with Tomato Sauce -- Vegetable Soup -- Anita Loos -- Kitten's Tongue -- James Russell Lowell.

Eleanor Makes Macaroons -- Charles Fletcher Lummis -- Atole de Piña (Pineapple Gruel) -- Cajeta de Camote y Piña -- Cajeta de Celaya -- Cajeta de Leche -- Candied Peaches -- Chile Sauce -- Chiles Rellenos de Picadillo (Stuffed Green Peppers) -- Gato De Liebre (Hare Pie) -- Guaxolote en Mole Verde (Turkey in Green Sauce) -- Ostras de la Buena Mujer (Good Woman's Oysters) -- Pichones Borrachos (Drunken Pigeons) -- Pollos de la Bella Mulata(Chicken à la the Beautiful Mulatto) -- Quesadillas de Prisa (Hurry-up Cheese Cakes) -- Stuffed Potatoes (Peru and Bolivia) -- John D. MacDonald -- Ceviche de Caracol -- Meyer's Superior Cocktail Dip -- Tolbert's Chili for One Hundred -- Mary Peabody Mann -- Pigeon Soup -- Pandowdy -- Scalloped Oysters -- Sponge Cake -- Bobbie Ann Mason -- Boiled Custard -- Mary McCarthy -- Meat Loaf -- Herman Melville -- Clam Chowder -- H. L. Mencken -- Jump Stiddy -- S. Weir Mitchell -- Milk -- Raw Soup -- Tea -- Vladimir Nabokov -- Eggs à la Nabocoque -- Lorine Niedecker -- Bread Pudding -- Chicken Loaf -- Corn and Cheese Fondue -- Jello Salad -- Swedish Meatballs -- Catherine Owen -- American Walnut Catsup -- Cigarettes à la Reine -- Compote of Pigeons -- Cutlets Chaudfroid à la Russe -- Genoa Cake -- Mock Haggis -- Walker Percy -- Cud'n Walker's Uncle Will'sFavorite Mint Julep Receipt -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Genuine Mole Poblana -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- Alligator-Tail Steak -- Blackbird Pie -- Crab à la Newburg -- Okra à la Cross Creek -- Wild Duck -- Mary Roberts Rinehart -- Baked Tomatoes -- Kenneth Roberts -- Beans -- Hot Buttered Rum -- Stewed Coot -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Mint Julep-Kentucky Style -- Spice Cake -- Dori Sanders -- Easy Peach Cobbler -- Saturday Club of Boston -- Parker House Rolls -- Benjamin Shillaber -- Boston Baked Beans -- Cucumber Catsup -- Lydia Sigourney -- Apples with Cream -- Beef Soup.

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