Eating the Past: Mark Twain's Comfort Food
This week, hosts Evelyn Funda, Sarah Berry, and Jamie Sanders continue exploring Mark Twain's "A Tramp Abroad", featuring American comfort foods.
From Mark Twain's A Tramp Abroad (1880), available at Project Gutenberg:
It has now been many months, at the present writing, since I have had a nourishing meal, but I shall soon have one—a modest, private affair, all to myself.
Mark Twain's selected dishes include:
- Radishes
- Baked apples, with cream
- Fried oysters; stewed oysters
- American coffee, with real cream
- Fried chicken, Southern style
- Broiled chicken, American style
Author's summary: Exploring Mark Twain's comfort food preferences.
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