This is a comprehensive collection of authentic recipes, some 500 in
all, for drinks and dishes that more than 150 American authors since the
late 18th century are known to have enjoyed. The book should appeal to
amateur chefs and so-called foodies who may want to test some of the
recipes in their kitchens; to American literature instructors and
scholars who may use it as a teaching tool; and general readers who will
read it for pleasure. In effect, this is a celebrity cookbook to which
many literary celebrities, living and dead, have contributed, among them
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rudolfo Anaya, Denise Chavez, Emily Dickinson,
William Faulkner, Harlan Ellison, Ursula Le Guin, Benjamin Franklin,
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jack London, Allen Ginsberg, Lafcadio Hearn,
Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Elmore Leonard, Bobbie Ann Mason,
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gertrude Stein, Onoto
Watanna, Eudora Welty, Walt Whitman, and Gerald Vizenor.