Ebook: Twain's feast: searching for America's lost foods in the footsteps of Samuel Clemens

It makes me cry to think of them : prairie-hens, from Illinois -- A barrel of odds and ends : possum and raccoon -- Masterpiece of the universe : trout at Lake Tahoe -- Heaven on the half shell : oysters and mussels in San Francisco -- Dinner was leisurely served : Philadelphia terrapin -- The most absorbing story in the world : sheep-head and croakers, from New Orleans -- It is my Thanksgiving Day : cranberries -- Twilight : maple syrup -- Epilogue.;Shares insights into Mark Twain's menu-style tribute to American cuisine and how it included wild regional specialties that have been lost to industrial food production, tracing the author's efforts to track down eight specific dishes.