Fading Feast

by Sokolov, Raymond A.

• ISBN13: 9781567920376
• ISBN10: 1567920373
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-07-01
• Publisher: David R Godine Pub

Summary

In The Early 1980s, on assignment from the American Museum of Natural History, Raymond Sokolov crisscrossed America in search of traditional regional cuisines. He returned with a cornucopia of recipes that few at the time seemed eager to preserve -- recipes such as boudin blanc, persimmon fudge, and, for the truly adventurous, roast bear paws. The essays here collected were meant to celebrate these vanishing, quintessentially American foods. Since its first publication, however, Fading Feast has proven to be not a farewell, but the forerunner of renewed interest in these regional treasures. Written with panache and gusto -- and featuring eleven essays not included in the original version -- this new edition is as timely and entertaining now as when Sokolov first set out to record our native culinary customs.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Nonpareil Edition	xiii
Introduction	3	(10)
THE MIDWEST
The Independence Fair	13	(10)
The Hoosier Secret: Native Persimmons	23	(13)
The Taming of the Grain: Minnesota Wild Rice	36	(9)
Morel Victory: Wild Mushrooms in Michigan	45	(10)
Geese on the Run	55	(9)
Tasty Pasty: Michigan's Finnish-Cornish Meat Pie	64	(11)
THE SOUTH
A Squirrel in Every Pot: Brunswick Stew and Burgoo	75	(8)
The Lime That Failed	83	(9)
White Lightning	92	(9)
Living High Off the Hog: Smithfield Ham	101	(8)
Planter's Lunch	109	(16)
Hot Cajun Sausage	125	(12)
THE EAST
An Original Old-Fashioned Yankee Clambake	137	(10)
Blueberry Blues	147	(11)
Moses and Manhasset: The Kosher Kitchen	158	(15)
Jupiter's Walnut in the New World	173	(7)
Stalking the Cultivated Gooseberry	180	(9)
THE WEST
Fleece Afoot: Colorado Lamb	189	(14)
Chili con Blarney	203	(12)
Tillamook Cheddar	215	(7)
The Giant Snail of La Jolla: Diving for Abalone	222	(8)
Breakfast at Shungopavi: Hopi Cooking	230	(12)
Olympia Oysters	242	(8)
Pacific Salmon	250	(13)
NEW ESSAYS
Cut and Dried	263	(5)
Endangered Pisces	268	(6)
Everyman's Muffins	274	(6)
Fish, Fresh from the Farm	280	(5)
Heavy Date	285	(6)
Hedgehog of the Sea	291	(6)
The Hoecake Perplex	297	(5)
Quince Essentials	302	(5)
Respect Your Elders	307	(6)
Roots	313	(9)
Sauce for the Masses	322	(9)
Index of Recipes	331