"Christopher M." > wrote in message
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> "Tara" > wrote in message
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>> http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/03/l...l-of-fare.html
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>> It has now been many months, at the present writing, since I have had
>> a nourishing meal, but I shall soon have one-a modest, private affair,
>> all to myself. I have selected a few dishes, and made out a little bill
>> of fare, which will go home in the steamer that precedes me, and be hot
>> when I arrive-as follows:
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>> Radishes. Baked apples, with cream
>> Fried oysters; stewed oysters. Frogs.
>> American coffee, with real cream.
>> American butter.
>> Fried chicken, Southern style.
>> Porter-house steak.
>> Saratoga potatoes.
>> Broiled chicken, American style.
>> Hot biscuits, Southern style.
>> Hot wheat-bread, Southern style.
>> Hot buckwheat cakes.
>> American toast. Clear maple syrup.
>> Virginia bacon, broiled.
>> Blue points, on the half shell.
>> Cherry-stone clams.
>> San Francisco mussels, steamed.
>> Oyster soup. Clam Soup.
>> Philadelphia Terapin soup.
>> Oysters roasted in shell-Northern style.
>> Soft-shell crabs. Connecticut shad.
>> Baltimore perch.
>> Brook trout, from Sierra Nevadas.
>> Lake trout, from Tahoe.
>> Sheep-head and croakers, from New Orleans.
>> Black bass from the Mississippi.
>> American roast beef.
>> Roast turkey, Thanksgiving style.
>> Cranberry sauce. Celery.
>> Roast wild turkey. Woodcock.
>> Canvas-back-duck, from Baltimore.
>> Prairie liens, from Illinois.
>> Missouri partridges, broiled.
>> 'Possum. Coon.
>> Boston bacon and beans.
>> Bacon and greens, Southern style.
>> Hominy. Boiled onions. Turnips.
>> Pumpkin. Squash. Asparagus.
>> Butter beans. Sweet potatoes.
>> Lettuce. Succotash. String beans.
>> Mashed potatoes. Catsup.
>> Boiled potatoes, in their skins.
>> New potatoes, minus the skins.
>> Early rose potatoes, roasted in the ashes, Southern style, served hot.
>> Sliced tomatoes, with sugar or vinegar. Stewed tomatoes.
>> Green corn, cut from the ear and served with butter and pepper.
>> Green corn, on the ear.
>> Hot corn-pone, with chitlings, Southern style.
>> Hot hoe-cake, Southern style.
>> Hot egg-bread, Southern style.
>> Hot light-bread, Southern style.
>> Buttermilk. Iced sweet milk.
>> Apple dumplings, with real cream.
>> Apple pie. Apple fritters.
>> Apple puffs, Southern style.
>> Peach cobbler, Southern style
>> Peach pie. American mince pie.
>> Pumpkin pie. Squash pie.
>> All sorts of American pastry.
>> Fresh American fruits of all sorts, including strawberries which are
>> not to be doled out as if they were jewelry, but in a more liberal way.
>> Ice-water-not prepared in the ineffectual goblet, but in the sincere
>> and capable refrigerator.
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> No meatball sandwich? That's odd.

I wouldn't say that's American!