Fading Feast : a compendium of disappearing American regional foods / by Raymond Sokolov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sokolov, Raymond A.

Contributor:

De Menil, Adelaide, photographer.

Nancy Klavans Cookery Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, American.

Cooking, American--History.

Penn Provenance:

Klavans, Nancy (donor)

Physical Description:

[12], 276 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981.

Contents:

Introduction

The Midwest. The Independence Fair; The Hoosier Secret: Native Persimmons; The Taming of the Grain: Minnesota Wild Rice; Morel Victory: Wild Mushrooms in Michigan; Geese on the Run; Tasty Pasty: Michigan's Finnish-Cornish Meat Pie

The South. A Squirrel in Every Pot: Brunswick Stew and Burgoo; The Lime that Failed; White Lightning; Living High off the Hog: Smithfield Ham; Planter's Lunch; Hot Cajun Sausage

The East. An Original Old-Fashioned Yankee Clambake; Blueberry Blues; Moses and Manhasset: The Kosher Kitchen; Jupiter's Walnut in the New World; Stalking the Cultivated Gooseberry

The West. Fleece Afoot: Colorado Lamb; Chili con Blarney; Tillamook Cheddar; The Giant Snail of La Jolla: Diving for Abalone; Breakfast at Shungopavi: Hopi Cooking; Olympia Oysters; Pacific Salmon.

Notes:

Color photographs by Adelaide de Menil.

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

Klavans Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Nancy Klavans in 2016.

Klavans copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0374152136 (cloth) :

OCLC:

7734587