American Food Writing: An Anthology with Classic Recipes: A Library of America Special Publication Armenia Mexico and the United States

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American Food Writing: An Anthology with Classic Recipes: A Library of America Special Publication Armenia Mexico and the United StatesIn this groundbreaking anthology, celebrated food writer Molly ONeill gathers the very best from over 250 years of American culinary history. This literary feast includes classic accounts of iconic American foods: Henry David Thoreau on the delights of watermelon; Herman Melville, with a mouth watering chapter on clam chowder; H. L. Mencken on the hot dog; M. F. K. Fisher in praise of the oyster; Ralph Ellison on the irresistible appeal of baked yam;