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Canadian production of
clarity of
evaporator for
grading of
as local food
making
Native Americans and
recipes for
slavery and
sugar in
Twain’s fondness for
vacuum system for
of Vermont
weather and
maple trees:
of New England woods
sap of
tapping of
wild groves of
Mardi Gras
Margaret, queen of Italy
Marin Rod & Gun Club
Market Assistant, The
(De Voe)
Marryat, Frederick
Martha’s Vineyard
Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Maryland Watermen’s Society
Massasoit
Mayer, Todd
Melville, Herman
Menken, Adah
Men’s Health
mercury
milk
Miller, Joaquin
Mississippi River
alteration of
drainage basin of
fish of
flooding of
in flux
Great Flood of 1927 of
sediment of
steamboating on
wetlands and
see also
New Orleans, La.
Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet (MRGO)
Missouri
Mitchell, Joseph
Moby-Dick
(Melville)
Moffett, Pamela Clemens
Monroe, Cameron
Monroe, James
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Moore, Francis
Moore, Michelle
Mormon Battalion
Morning Call
Morrison Creek
Moto (restaurant)
Mourt’s Relation
(Winslow)
Mr. B’s Bistro
Mrs. Lincoln’s Boston Cook Book
(Lincoln)
muskrat
mussels
filter feeding by
marine life of
recipe for
steamed
Narragansett Indians
Natchez Indians
National Lahontan Fish Hatchery
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Native Americans
cranberry cultivation by
gumbo and
prairie and
settlement of New England and
terrapins and
Thanksgiving holiday and
see also specific tribes
Nevada Fish Commissioners
Newell, Frederick
New England:
settlement of
weather of
New England Farmer
Newlands Project (1905)
New Orleans, La.
cuisine of
emancipation of slaves and effects on cooking
ethnic population of
farmers’ market of
fish of
Foodservice EXPO of
French Market of
geography of
Hurricane Katrina and
Mardi Gras in
restaurants of
traditional dishes of
Twain in
wetlands of
see also
Cajun cooking; Creole cooking; Mississippi River
New Orleans Cookbook, The
(Collins and Collins)
New Orleans Fish House
Newton.
New York City
Collect Pond of
New Yorker
New York State Agricultural Fair of 1844
New York Times
Norma’s Restaurant
Northland (cooperative)
Northwestern
Northwood
(Hale)
Oberle, Frank
controlled burn and
on prairies
Oberle, Judy
Obernolte, Rena
Occidental Hotel
Ocean Spray (cooperative)
Ohlone Indians
okra
“Old Times on the Mississippi” (Twain)
oleomargarine
Oliver, Sandra
Olympia oysters
Omnivore’s Dilemma, The
(Pollan)
opossum
recipes for
as slave food
Ostrea conchaphila
(oyster)
O. edulis
(oyster)
Ottawa Indians
oysters
Armoricaine
Bluepoint
filter feeding by
in Hangtown fry
hydraulic mining and
Mexican
Olympia
poaching of
preparations of
raw
recipes for
in salt roast
of San Francisco Bay
Save the Bay project and
shell mounds of
silt and
species of
Sweetwater
transportation of
Twain’s fondness for
in Twain’s ideal menu
Paiute Indians
passenger pigeon
pasteurization process
Paul (author’s friend)
Peacock, Scott
“Personal Habits of Siamese Twins, The” (Twain)
Pfaff’s Cellar
Physiology of Taste
(Brillat-Savarin)
Picayune’s Creole Cook Book, The
Pilot Peak
Plaice, Scott
Polk County Possum Club
Pollan, Michael
pompano
Pontchartrain, Lake
“Possum” (Dunbar)
Practical American Cookery and Household Management
(Corson)
Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving
(Henderson)
prairie:
conservation of
corn farming and
erosion of
fertilizer and
fire and
as “food desert,”
grasses of
of Missouri
name of
Native Americans and
Oberle on
Oberle’s controlled burn of
preservation of
prairie (
cont.
)
railways and
scale of
sod of
soil of
steel plow and
today
Twain’s recollection of
Prairie-Chicken
prairie chickens
booming display of
cooking
farming and
habitat loss and
hunting of
ideal habitat of
instructions for selecting
market hunting of
meat of
population of
railways and
recipes for
Prairie Ridge State Natural Area
Prohibition
Proulx, Amy
Proulx, Bill
Prudhomme, Paul
Pure Air Native Seed Company
purple coneflower (echinacea)
Pyramid Lake
agricultural diversions from
alkaline water of
development and
fishery of
modern extent of
trout of,
see
Lahontan cutthroat trout
Quaker City
Quarles, John
Quarles farm
meals served at
slaves of
Southern cooking and
raccoon:
in author’s kitchen
Cantu’s preparation of
eating
fat of
fur of
hunting
overview of
recipe for
as slave food
taste of
West African food and
see also
Gillett Coon Supper
“Raid on the Oyster Pirates, A” (London)
rainbow trout
Randolph, Mary
Ranhofer, Charles
recipes:
for cranberries
for diamondback terrapin
for German coffee
for maple syrup
for mussels
for oysters
for prairie hen
for raccoon
for Thanksgiving
for trout
Red Cross
redtop grass
Reilly (author’s friend)
rice
Rich Neck Plantation
Ricketts, Ed
Roughing It
(Twain)
Royal West Africa Company
Rush, Benjamin
salmon
of San Francisco Bay
Saltwater Foodways
(Oliver)
Samson, Steve
Sandler, Hilary
San Francisco:
fish abundance of
fog of
Occidental Hotel of
offshore upwelling and
oyster houses of
Twain’s flight to
San Francisco Bay:
filling in of
fisheries of
oyster poaching in
oysters of
restoration of
salmon of
ship hulks in
water flow of
Sanitary Commission
savanna
Save the Bay project
Sawyer, Tom
Science
Scoofy, Mr.
Scotland
Scribner’s
Sea of Galilee
Sea Salt (restaurant)
Senegal Concession
Separatists
sheepshead (fish)
catching of
cooking of
recipes for
taste of
Shoalwater Bay
Shoshone Indians
shrimp
“Shuckee Duckee,”
Shuman, Carrie V.
Sierra ice
Signs and Seasons
(Burroughs)
Simmons, Amelia
Sioux Indians
Skimmerhorn, John
slaves, slavery:
in colonial Virginia
foods of
local environment and
maple syrup industry and
opossum as food of
on Quarles farm
rice cultivation and
terrapin and
Twain’s recollection of
West African foods and
slumgullion
Snell’s window
“Sociable Jimmy” (Twain)
Soulard Farmer’s Market
Soul Food Farm
South Carolina
Southern cooking
African influence on
Twain on
Sparganothis
(fruitworm)
speckled trout
Spenger’s (restaurant)
spotted trout
Springfield.
Squanto (Tisquantum)
steak:
dry-aged
Twain’s favorite
wet-aged
steamboating
Stearns, Bret
steel plow
Steinbeck, John
Stormfield (Twain’s house)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
suckerfish (cui-ui)
sugar
in maple syrup
sugar bushes
Summit Lake
Sutherland, J. B.
Sweetwater oysters
Swift, Gustavus
Tahoe, Lake
name of
today
trout of
Twain’s forest fire at
water of
Tahoe Research Group
Tales of the Fish Patrol
(London)
Tallent, Annie
taste:
of diamondback terrapin
of Lahontan cutthroat trout
memory and
of oysters
of raccoon
Taste of Country Cooking, The
(Lewis)
Taylor, John Martin
Taylor Shellfish
technosyrup
terrapin,
see
diamondback terrapin
Thanksgiving
cranberries and
first
ideal dinner for
as national custom
recipe for
standard menu for
turkey and
at Twain’s Hartford home
Thanksgiving
(Baker)
Third Delta Conveyance Channel
Thomas, Elizabeth
Thomas, Robert B.
Tidwell, Mike
Tisquantum (Squanto)
Tom Sawyer Abroad
(Twain)
Tooker, Poppy
Top Chef
(television show)
Tramp Abroad, A
(Twain)
transcontinental railroad
trout
brook
brown
cutthroat
eyes of
ice and
Lahontan,
see
Lahontan cutthroat trout
lake
rainbow
recipes for
species and varieties of
speckled
spotted
Twain’s fondness of
water quality and
world record for
turkey
recipe for
Thanksgiving holiday and
Twain, Mark:
alias of
bankruptcy of
Confederate service of
death of
and decision to go west
depression of
in European and Middle Eastern tour
on European coffee
European food disliked by
fame of
final years of
in flight to San Francisco
food enthusiasm of
forest fire caused by
German coffee recipe of
Hartford home of
ice water liked by
ideal breakfast of
ideal menu of
ideal steak dinner of
at Lake Tahoe
Livy’s death and
maple syrup liked by
marriage of
on New England weather
New Orleans visited by
oyster menu of
prairie recollected by
as public speaker
in raccoon hunt
slaves in boyhood of
on Southern-style cooking
as steamboat pilot
Susy’s death and

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