Andrew Beahrs will be discussing and signing his new book, Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens.
In Twain's Feast, Andrew Beahrs sets out to discover what has happened to eight of the forgotten regional specialties from the fantasy menu of American dishes Mark Twain composed on a tour of Europe in 1879. Twain's menu, it turns out, is not only a list of favorite dishes, but also a memoir and a map of a life that leads Beahrs from the dwindling prairie of rural Illinois, home to the prairie chicken, to a six-hundred-pound coon supper in Arkansas to the biggest native oyster reef in San Francisco Bay.
To sweeten up tonight's event, Andrew is going to offer attendees a maple syrup tasting featuring several grades of extraordinary syrups from River's Edge Sugar House.
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The event is free; call 925-837-7337 for reservations.
