Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. Foundations Of Flavor: The Roots Of Mobile'S Culinary Heritage -- 1. Pearls of the Past: Oysters, Native Americans and Wintzell's Oyster House -- 2. Inking the Past: The Founding of Mobile and Squid Ink -- 3. Stirring the Pot of History: The Royal Scam's Gumbo and Colonial Mobile -- Part II. Harvest And Hardship: The Intersection Of History And Food In Mobile'S Nineteenth Century -- 4. From Oyster Saloons to Oakleigh: Callaghan's Irish Social Club and the Culinary Landscape of Mobile in the 1800s -- 5. From Chains to Freedom: The Story of Kazoola and Early African American Foodways -- 6. Cracking the Shell: The A& -- M Peanut Shop and Civil War Legacies in Mobile -- Part III. The Melting Pot: Immigrant Influences And Culinary Progress In Twentieth-Century Mobile -- 7. The Changing Table: The Dew Drop Inn and the Culinary Scene of Mobile in the 1900s -- 8. A Sweet Legacy: Greek Immigrants and the Legacy of Three Georges -- 9. From Havana to Mobile: Prohibition Tales and Cuban Connections at Las Floriditas -- Part IV. A New Era Of Eats: Mobile'S Twenty-First-Century Food Revolution -- 10. Carnival Cuisine: King Cakes, Moon Pies and the Joe Cain Cafe -- 11. Home Runs, Huddles and Hometown Favorites: A Journey Through Mobile's Sports History at Heroes Sports Bar and Grille -- 12. From Revitalization to Revolution: The Cheese Cottage and Mobile's Twenty-First-Century Food Scene -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- About the Author.