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3 Books About Famous Writers and Food
Twain’s Feast: Searching for America’s Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens
by Andrew Beahrs From the publisher: One young food writer’s search for America’s lost wild foods, from New Orleans croakers to Illinois prairie hens, with Mark Twain as his guide. […]
Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation
by Andrea Wulf From the publisher: For the Founding Fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions: a conjoined interest as deeply ingrained in their characters as the battle for […]
Founding Foodies
by Dave DeWitt From the publisher: Who Were the Original Foodies? Beyond their legacy as revolutionaries and politicians, the Founding Fathers of America were first and foremost a group of […]
Dining with Proust: A Practical Guide to French Cuisine of the Belle Epoque
by Shirley King From the publisher: Marcel Proust’s literary masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu overflows with brilliant, minutely described accounts of food and drink drawn from the author’s vivid […]
First African-American to dine at White House
A month after he became President with the assassination of William McKinley in 1901, 42-year old Theodore Roosevelt invited 45-year old Booker T. Washington at the last minute to stay […]
When U.S. Presidents began to be seen eating
Portraits of the Presidents from Washington into the 20th century presented them as strong, powerful, and confident leaders. However, something shifts in the mid-20th century. Beginning with Franklin Delano Roosevelt […]
Dining at Monticello: In Good Taste and Abundance
edited by Damon Lee Fowler From the publisher: An inviting view of the renowned hospitality offered at Thomas Jefferson’s table. Ten essays discuss topics such as the groceries and wine […]
Hard apple cider a symbol in 1840s of simpler frontier life
Americans, troubled by the economic malaise that had fallen upon the country in 1837, embraced a nostalgia for a simpler time when their fates were not tied to mysterious market […]