This round Simona, at Briciole , selected Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens by Andrew Beahrs for our February-March Cook the Books project. I thoroughly enjoyed this book which was rooted in the past - with the food history - and the present - with the writer's own kitchen trials. If you like reading about food, give this tome a try. I really had no clue that Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens was such a champion of American foods; while others were lauding the sophistication of European cuisines, he longed for some down-home cookin'. Here is Twain’s “little bill of fare,” in full, from A Tramp Abroad, 1880. About eighty different American foods that he wanted as soon as he repatriated... Radishes. Baked apples with cream. Fried oysters; stewed oysters. Frogs. American coffee, with real cream. American butter. Porter-house steak. Fried chicken, Southern style. Saratoga potatoes. Broiled chicken...