Friday, May 30, 2014

"A Nourishing Meal"

While touring Europe in 1878, Mark Twain was less than satisfied with the food that he encountered there. In his A Tramp Abroad, Twain published the following fare for his "modest, private affair, all to myself...and be hot when I arrive..."

Radishes
Baked apples, with cream
Fried oysters; stewed oysters
Frogs
American coffee, with real cream
American butter
Fried chicken, Southern style
Porter-house steak
Saratoga potatoes
Broiled chicken, American style
Hot biscuits, Southern style
Hot wheat-bread, Southern style
Hot buckwheat cakes
American toast
Clear maple syrup
Virginia bacon, broiled
Blue points, on the half shell
Cherry-stone clams
San Francisco mussels, steamed
Oyster soup
Clam soup
Philadelphia Terapin soup
Oysters roasted in shell, Northern style
Soft-shell crabs
Connecticut shad
Baltimore perch
Brook trout, from Sierra Nevadas
Lake trout, from Tahoe
Sheep-head and croakers, from New Orleans
Black bass from the Mississippi
American roast beef
Roast turkey, Thanksgiving style
Cranberry sauce
Celery
Roast wild turkey
Woodcock
Canvas-back duck, from Baltimore
Prairie hens, from Illinois
Missouri partridge, broiled
'Possum
coon
Boston bacon and beans
Bacon and greens, Southern style
Hominy
Boiled onions
Turnips
Pumpkin
Squash
Asparagus
Butter beans
Sweet potatoes
Lettuce
Succotash
String beans
Mashed potatoes
Catsup
Boiled potatoes, in their skins
New potatoes, minus the skins
Early rose potatoes, roasted in the ashes, Southern style, served hot
Sliced tomatoes, with sugar or vinegar
Stewed tomatoes
Green corn, cut from the ear and served with butter and pepper
Green corn, on the ear
Hot corn-pone, with chitlings, Southern style
Hot hoe-cake, Southern style
Hot egg-bread, Southern style
Hot light-bread, Southern style
Buttermilk
Iced sweet milk
Apple dumplings, with real cream
Apple pie
Apple fritters
Apple puffs, Southern style
Peach cobbler, Southern style
Peach pie
American mince pie
Pumpkin pie
Squash pie
All sorts of American pastry



Thursday, May 29, 2014

Greetings

To say I haven't posted in awhile is a gross understatement. Life has been a distraction that has kept me from writing the type of posts that I expected for myself. My goal is to get back to it. While I have a few posts outlined for this blog, I will also be starting a Facebook group where I can post the smaller tidbits that I come across. I hope for good things to come from all of this.

Thank you.