Includes bibliographical references (pages 729-742) and index.

Pehr Kalm from Travels into North America 1 -- / Thomas Jefferson Ice Cream 5 -- / Joel Barlow from The Hasty-Pudding 6 -- / Amelia Simmons Johny Cake, or Hoe Cake 12 -- / Meriwether Lewis from The Journals of Lewis & Clark 13 -- / John Pintard Letters to His Daughter, 1819-32 15 -- / John M. Duncan A Virginia Barbecue 21 -- / Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Exploit of the Professor 24 -- / Lydia Maria Child To Make a Chowder 29 -- / Frederick Marryat from A Diary in America 30 -- / Eliza Leslie Potted Lobster 34 -- / Nathaniel Hawthorne This Day's Food 35 -- / James M. Sanderson Above All Other Birds 37 -- / Sarah Rutledge To Dress Macaroni a la Sauce Blanche 41 -- / George G. Foster Eating-Houses 42 -- / Tunis G. Campbell To Make Corn Bread 47 -- / Herman Melville Chowder 48 -- / Annabella P. Hill Peach Leather 52 -- / Henry David Thoreau Bread 53 -- Watermelons 56 -- / Esther Levy Irish Potato Pudding 60 -- / Frederick Douglass from My Bondage and My Freedom 61 -- / George Martin Lane Lay of the One Fish-Ball 66 -- / Marion Harland (Mary Virginia Terhune) Tomato Catsup 68 -- / Henry Ward Beecher Apple-Pie 69 -- / National Cookery Book A Michigan Receipt for Making Shortcake in Camp 72 -- / Walt Whitman A Great Treat of Ice Cream 73 -- / Estelle Woods Wilcox, Comp. Hayes Cake and Tilden Cake 75 -- / Harriet Beecher Stowe from Cookery 76 -- / Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland Mother's Rice Pudding 83 -- / Randolph Harrison from The Philosophy of Frying 84 -- / Marion Cabell Tyree Meat-Flavoring 86 -- / George Augustus Sala Tyranny of Pie 87 -- / Emily Dickinson Black Cake 89 -- / Frank Hamilton Cushing from Zuni Breadstuff 91 -- / Abby Fisher Chicken Croquettes 95 -- / John Burroughs My Sugar-Making Days 96 -- / Mary Lincoln Chicken Chartreuse 98 -- / Ward McAllister Success in Entertaining 99 -- / Mrs. F. L. Gillette, Hugo Ziemann Roman Punch No. 1 and No. 2 104 -- / Henry Adams from History of the United States 105 -- / Mrs. E. E. Kellogg Bran Jelly 108 -- / Charles Ranhofer from The Epicurean 109 -- / Charles Ranhofer Lobster a la Newberg or Delmonico 113 -- / Elizabeth Robins Pennell Spring Chicken 114 -- / Fannie Merritt Farmer Eggs a la Goldenrod 118 -- / Annie D. Tallent Bill of Fare on the Plains 119 -- / Henrietta Sowle from I Go A-Marketing 123 -- / Sarah Tyson Rorer Hamburg Steak 126 -- / The Picayune's Creole Cook Book Calas 127 -- / The Picayune's Creole Cook Book Cranberry Sauce 130 -- / Paul Laurence Dunbar Possum 132 -- / Lizzie Kander Matzos Pudding 134 -- / Owen Johnson from The Great Pancake Record 135 -- / Hester Price Old-Fashioned Hickory Nut Cake 143 -- / Edna Ferber from Maymeys from Cuba 144 -- / Mrs. John E. Cooke Perfection Salad 152 -- / Mary Antin from The Promised Land 153 -- / Rufus Estes Baked Bananas, Porto Rican Fashion 156 -- / Clarence E. Edwords Around Little Italy 157 -- / Willa Cather from My Antonia 165 -- / Edith M. Thomas Bucks County Apple Butter 170 -- / H. L. Mencken Home of the Crab 171 -- Hot Dogs 172 -- / George Washington Carver Puree of Peanuts Number Two (Extra Fine) 176 -- / Sheila Hibben Eating American 177 -- / Sheila Hibben Cape Cod Turkey (Stuffed Codfish) 181 -- / Thomas Wolfe from Of Time and the River 182 -- / Isabel Ely Lord Nut Loaf 186 -- / Gertrude Stein from American Food and American Houses 187 -- / Beverly Hills Woman's Club Chop Suey 193 -- / John Steinbeck Breakfast 193 -- / Kenneth Roberts from Down-East Ambrosia 196 -- / Rex Stout Planked Porterhouse Steak 204 -- / Joseph Mitchell Mr. Barbee's Terrapin 205 -- / Nelson Algren from America Eats 215 -- / M.F.K. Fisher A Lusty Bit of Nourishment 220 -- Define This Word 234 -- / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings from Cross Creek Cookery 243 -- / Samuel Chamberlain from Clementine in the Kitchen 250 -- / Jerre Mangione, from Mount Allegro 257 -- / S.J. Perelman Avocado, or the Future of Eating 263 -- / Betty MacDonald That Infernal Machine, the Pressure Cooker 266 -- / Buwei Yang Chao Fried Scallion Cake 269 -- / Ogden Nash Strange Case of Mr. Palliser's Palate 270 -- / Jade Snow Wong from Fifth Chinese Daughter 272 -- / Alfred Kazin from A Walker in the City 279 -- / Maria Sermolino from Papa's Table d'Hote 383 -- / Irma Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker Almond Cake or Torte 290 -- / Ralph Ellison from Invisible Man 292 -- / Helen Evans Brown Gazpacho 297 -- / Alice B. Toklas Food in the United States in 1934 and 1935 298 -- / Carey D. Miller, Katherine Bazore, Mary Bartow Pineapple Pie 310 -- / May Sarton Sukiyaki on the Kona Coast 311 -- / Clementine Paddleford from A Flower for My Mother 318 -- / Peg Bracken from Good Cooksmanship, or How to Talk a Good Fight 321 -- / John Berry Toward Fried Chicken 326 -- / William Styron Southern Fried Chicken (with Giblet Gravy) 330 -- / Evan Hunter Pancakes 335 -- / A.J. Liebling from The Modest Threshold 337 -- / Euell Gibbons How to Cook a Carp 343 -- / Joseph Wechsberg Dinner at the Pavillon 347 -- / Eugene Walter Gumbo Cult 354 -- / John Gould Baked Beans 364 -- / James Beard from Delights and Prejudices 365 -- / James Beard Beef Stroganoff 375 -- / Langston Hughes from Soul Food 376 -- / Michael Field Vichyssoise 380 -- / LeRoi Jones Soul Food 384 -- / Ella Rita Helfrich Tunnel of Fudge Cake 387 -- / John McPhee from Oranges 389 -- / Gary Snyder How To Make Stew in the Pinacate Desert: Recipe for Locke & Drum 396 -- / Julia Child About the Television Series 398 -- / Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck Coq au Vin 404 -- / Nora Ephron Food Establisbment: Life In the Land of the Rising Souffle (Or Is It the Rising Meringue?) 408 -- / Gael Greene Lessons in Humility and Chutzpah 422 -- / Anna Thomas Zucchini Quiche 428 -- / Roy Andries de Groot Techniques of the Kitchen-The Making of a Cook 430 -- / Madhur Jaffrey Moong Dal 438 -- / Richard Olney from Simple French Food 440 -- / Paula Wolfert Chicken Tagine with Chick-peas 452 -- / Calvin Trillin Traveling Man's Burden 456 -- / Marcella Hazan Risotto Alla Parmigiana 463 -- / Craig Claiborne Just a Quiet Dinner for Two in Paris: 31 Dishes, Nine Wines, a $4,000 Check 465 -- / Russell Baker Francs and Beans 472 -- / Ray Kroc from Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonalds 475 -- / Edna Lewis Morning-After-Hog-Butchering Breakfast 479 -- / Raymond Sokolov An Original Old-Fashioned Yankee Clambake 487 -- / Guy Davenport Anthropology of Table Manners from Geophagy Onward 495 -- / James Villas Blessed Are We Who Serve 503 -- / Julee Rosso, Sheila Lukins Chicken Marbella 515 -- / Lillian Hellman, Peter Feibleman from Eating Together: Recipes & Recollections 517 -- / Waverley Root Gillette's 522 -- / Laurie Colwin Kitchen Horrors 530 -- / Sara Suleri from Meatless Days 535 -- / Chris Maynard, Bill Scheller from Monifold Destiny 545 -- / Wendell Berry Pleasures of Eating 551 -- / Alice Waters Farm-Restaurant Connection 559 -- / Daniel Pinkwater Where Is the Grease of Yesteryear? 569 -- / Sheila Ferguson Philadelphia Pepperpot Soup 572 -- / Jeffrey Steingarten Primal Bread 576 -- / Ray Gonzalez Mama Menudo 586 -- / Maxine Kumin Enough Jam for a Lifetime 589 -- / Danny Meyer, Michael Romano Yellowfin Tuna Burgers With Ginger-Mustard Glaze 594 -- / Laura Shapiro Do Women Like to Cook? 597 -- / Victor M.

Valle, Mary Lau Valle from Recipe of Memory 605 -- / John Thorne Toll House Cookie 610 -- / Shirley Geok-lin Lim Boiled Chicken Feet and Hundred-Year-Old Eggs: Poor Chinese Feasting 615 -- / Howard Mitcham Creole Gumbo 622 -- / Judith Moore Adultery 626 -- / Betty Fussell from My Kitchen Wars 642 -- / Rick Bragg Dinner Rites 650 -- / Ken Hom Steamed Pork Loaf with Salted Duck Eggs 655 -- / Grace Young Breath of a Wok 657 -- / Anthony Bourdain from Kitchen Confidential 662 -- / David Sedaris Today's Special 669 -- / Jhumpa Lahiri Indian Takeout 673 -- / Patricia Volk Hersheyettes 677 -- / Eric Schlosser from Fast Food Nation 683 -- / Corby Kummer Cheese: Cindy and David Major, Vermont 694 -- / Gary Paul Nabhan from Coming Home to Eat 699 -- / Ana Menendez Celebrations of Thanksgiving: Cuban Seasonings 706 -- / Robb Walsh Lady Bird Johnson's Pedernales Chili 711 -- / Ruth Reichl from Looking for Umami 712 -- / Michael Pollan My Organic Industrial Meal 717 -- Sources and Acknowledgments 729.