Mark Twain once wrote, "An oyster has hardly any more reasoning power than a scientist has; and so it is reasonably certain that this one jumped to the conclusion that the nineteen million years was a ...

A plate of assorted oysters at Swan Oyster Depot in San Francisco. Mark Richards To Mark Twain, San Francisco was coffee with fresh cream at the Ocean House, a hotel and restaurant overlooking the ...

Andrew Beahrs book is Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Foosteps of Samuel Clemens.

Riverboat pilot,failed businessman and journalist, Samuel Clemens is the man behind the figure of Mark Twain. A lot of people, including me, eagerly awaited the publication of this book -- the first ...