The Food of a Younger Land (51 page)

okra gumbo
(R)

Old Fashioned Cocktail
(R)

old-timey potato stew
(R)

opossum: Georgia Possum and Taters
(R)
; Possum Club of Polk County, Arkansas; roast

Oregon: Blue Ruin; Pioneer Memories
(R)
; Potatoes of Kow Kanyon
(R)
; Protest Against Mashed Potatoes; Salmon Barbecue
(R)
; Two Recipes from the Bohemia District of
(R)
; Wild Duck

Out-of-Doors Cookery, Arizona

oysters: Eufaula, Alabama, Oyster Roasts
(R)
; Georgia Oyster Roast
(R)
; North Carolina Oyster Roasts; Oyster Stew Supreme at Grand Central, New York
(R)

Palmer, Katherine

Pancakes, Wisconsin Sour-Dough

parties.
See
social events and communal meals

Pear Wine, Mississippi
(R)

Pee Dee Fish Stew, South Carolina
(R)

pemmican

Pennsylvania, Raising Mushrooms in

persimmons: about; Indiana Persimmon Pudding
(R)
; persimmon beer
(R)

Pheasants, Nebraska Eats

pickles, in Vermont
(R)

pie, hot tamale
(R)

pie (dessert): Chippewa blackberry ; at Iowa picnics in Los Angeles; Mississippi Molasses
(R)
; pumpkin, for
La Merienda
; vinegar
(R)
; at Virginia picnics

Pig Fries, Nebraska Lamb and

Piki Bread of the Hopis

Pioneer Eating, Notes on Oklahoma

Pioneer Memories, Oregon

plum pudding, cider
(R)

poke
(R)

pone, corn

pone, sweet potato
(R)

Pop Corn Days, Nebraska

pork: Indiana Pork Cake
(R)
; Kentucky Ham Bone Soup, (A Plantation Recipe)
(R)
; Kentucky Oysters; Mississippi Chitlins; Nebraska Lamb and Pig Fries; North Carolina Chitterling Strut; Virginia ham

Porterhouse steak

possum: Georgia Possum and Taters
(R)
; Possum Club of Polk County, Arkansas; roast

potatoes: kartoffel klösze
(R)
; of Kow Kanyon, Oregon
(R)
; lefsa
(R)
; Maine Chowders
(R)
; mock baked
(R)
; Oklahoma City’s Famous Suzi-Q; old-timey stew
(R)
; Oregon Protest Against Mashed; salad
(R)

pound cake
(R)

Prairie Oysters, Oklahoma

pudding: bag pudding
(R)
; baked Indian
(R)
; cider plum
(R)
; Indiana Persimmon
(R)

Puget Sound Indian Salmon Feasts

pumpkin pickle, sweet
(R)

quahogs, about

quahogs, in chowder
(R)

Rabbits, Nebraska Cooks Its

Rabbit Stew, Long Island: Hasenpfeffer
(R)

relishes, spiced currants and horseradish
(R)

Revolving Tables, Western

Rexroth, Kenneth

Reynolds, Edward B.

Rhode Island: clambakes; Clam Chowder
(R)
; Jonny Cakes
(R)
; May Breakfasts

rice: Florida Shrimp Pilau Supper (St. Augustine)
(R)
; South Carolina Chicken Bog; Spanish
(R)

Richardson, Eudora Ramsay

Richmond, Roaldus

Roberts, Kenneth

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Rum, Kenneth Roberts’ Maine-Style Hot Buttered
(R)

Sally White cake
(R)

salmon: Oregon Salmon Barbecue
(R)
; of Pacific Northwest; Puget Sound Indian Salmon Feasts ; salt salmon
(R)

sauce: barbecue
(R)
; Mississippi Barbecue
(R)
; for oysters
(R)
; pepper, for poke sallit
(R)

Saxon, Lyle

School Lunches, Washington State Hot

scrambled poke greens
(R)

seafood gumbo
(R)

Sergeant Saunders’ Virginia Brunswick Stew
(R)

shellfish: Conch Eats Conch and Grunts, Florida; Editorial Memorandum on Clams; Eufaula, Alabama, Oyster Roasts ; Florida Shrimp Pilau Supper (St. Augustine)
(R)
; Georgia Oyster Roast
(R)
; Josephine’s Mississippi Crabs; Long Island Clam Chowder
(R)
; Maine Clambake; Maryland Crabs
(R)
; New York Indoor Clam-Bake; North Carolina Oyster Roasts; Oyster Stew Supreme at Grand Central, New York
(R)
; Rhode Island Clam Chowder
(R)
; seafood gumbo
(R)
; Washington’s Geoduck Clams .
See also
fish

Shepherd, Rose

Sherbert, Andrew

shrimp pilau
(R)

Shrimp Pilau Supper, Florida (St. Augustine)
(R)

Sioux and Chippewa Food

Smelt Fry, Washington Community

social events and communal meals: Alabama Eggnog
(R)
; Arizona Menudo Party; California Grunion Fry; chowder parties; clambakes ; Coca-Cola Parties in Georgia; Cooking for the Threshers in Nebraska; Delaware’s Big Quarterly; donation parties; Eufaula, Alabama, Oyster Roasts
(R)
; Feast of the Christening ; Fish Fry on the Levee, Mississippi; Florida Shrimp Pilau Supper (St. Augustine)
(R)
; Footwashing at Lonely Dale, Alabama; foot washings; Funeral Cry Feast of the Choctaws; Georgia Oyster Roast
(R)
; Iowa Picnic in Los Angeles; Kansas Beef Tour
(R)
; Kansas steak roasts; Lutefisk Supper: Wisconsin ; Minnesota Booya Picnic
(R)
; Nebraska Buffalo Barbecue
(R)
; Nebraska Lamb and Pig Fries; Nebraska Pop Corn Days; New York Literary Tea; North Carolina Chitterling Strut ; Oregon pioneer reunions ; pheasant hunts; Possum Club of Polk County, Arkansas; Puget Sound Indian Salmon Feasts; Rhode Island May Breakfasts ; San Simon fall barbecue ; South Carolina Backwoods Barbecue; South Carolina Chicken Bog; South Carolina Pee Dee Fish Stew
(R)
; Tucson’s Menudo Party ; turkey shoots; Vermont Sugaring-Off; Virginia Chicken; Washington Community Smelt Fry; Washington Wildcat Parties ; When John Walton Became Governor of Oklahoma

Soda-Luncheonette Slang and Jargon

son of a bitch
(R)

son-of-a-gun stew
(R)

soup: Arizona Menudo Party; chowder rivalries; clam chowder, in New England ; crab
(R)
; crème vichyssoise
(R)
; fish court bouillon
(R)
; Kentucky Ham Bone Soup (A Plantation Recipe)
(R)
; Long Island Clam Chowder
(R)
; Maine Chowders
(R)
;
posole
; Rhode Island Clam Chowder
(R)
; Tucson’s Menudo Party

Sour-Dough Pancakes, Wisconsin

sour milk doughnuts
(R)

South Carolina: Backwoods Barbecue ; Chicken Bog; Pee Dee Fish Stew
(R)

Spanish-American foods

Spanish rice
(R)

Spoon Bread, Kentucky
(R)

squirrel: Brunswick stew
(R)
; mulligan
(R)
; in Southern cooking

strawberry shortcake
(R)

sugar-on-snow parties

Sullivan, Charles J.

Superstitions, Colorado

Superstitions About Foods [Navajo]

Suzi-Q Potatoes, Oklahoma City’s Famous

sweet potato pone
(R)

syllabub

Taco, Los Angeles Sandwich Called a

Tenbrink, Estella

“Tête de Veau,” Louisiana

Thomas, John W.

Thompson, Raymond

Threshers in Nebraska, Cooking for the

Tomasi, Mari

turkey shoots

Urban Kansas Eats and Drinks

Utah Salmi of Wild Duck
(R)

variety meats: Arizona Menudo Party ; Kentucky Oysters; Louisiana “Tête de Veau,”; Mississippi Chitlins; Nebraska Lamb and Pig Fries; North Carolina Chitterling Strut; Oklahoma Prairie Oysters; son of a bitch
(R)
; son-of-a-gun stew
(R)

vegetable hash
(R)

Vermont: Eating in
(R)
; Italian Feed in; Sugaring-Off ; Vermont Foods
(R)

vinegar pie
(R)

Virginia: Chicken; Foods Along U.S. 1 in
(R)
; Sergeant Saunders’ Brunswick Stew
(R)

Waldorf Salad
(R)

Ware, Edward Parrish

Washington State: Aplets and Cotlets ; Community Smelt Fry ; Geoduck Clams; Hot School Lunches; Wildcat Parties

Welty, Eudora

White, William Lindsay

Wildcat Parties, Washington

Wilted Lettuce, Kentucky
(R)

Wine, Mississippi Pear
(R)

Wisconsin and Minnesota Lutefisk
(R)

Wisconsin Sour-Dough Pancakes

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Wrenn, Sara

Wright, Richard

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mark Kurlansky is the
New York Times
-bestselling and James A. Beard Award-winning author of many books, including
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
;
Salt: A World History
;
1968: The Year That Rocked the World
;
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
;
The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America’s Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town
; and
Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea
, as well as the novel
Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue
. He is the winner of a
Bon Appétit
American Food and Entertaining Award for Food Writer of the Year, and the Glenfiddich Food and Drink Award for Food Book of the Year, as well as a finalist for the
Los Angeles Times
Book Prize. He lives in New York City.