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The author is grateful to a number of publications and organizations for permission to reprint several essays and recipes whose creators also contributed to this volume.
Portions of the essays “Chowder Tales” and “American Pie,” as well as recipes for lobster chowder, pine-cured salmon, Fenway Chowder, Spring Beach Soup, Pollo Criollo, Old-Fashioned Meatloaf, Arturo Zampaglione’s Polenta, Chester Aaron’s Very Garlic Pasta, Pie Committee Pie Crust, Ruth Eichner’s Frozen Raspberry Pie, Edna Lewis’s Rhubarb Pie, and Ed Behr’s Baked Maple Custard originally appeared in The New York Times and appear here with permission.
A portion of the essay “The Patron Saint of Poultry” originally appeared in Saveur magazine and appears here with permission.
The recipe for Nancy Silverton’s Salted Caramel and Peanut Sundae originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times and appears here with permission.
The recipe for James Beard’s Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic originally appeared in Delights & Prejudices: A Memoir with Recipes (Atheneum, 1964) and appears here with permission from the James Beard Society, New York City.
The recipe for Flo Braker’s Simply Perfect Yellow Cake originally appeared in The Simple Art of Perfect Baking (Houghton Mifflin, 1992) and appears here with permission.
The recipe for John Fleer’s Blackberry Farm Tea-brined, Batter-Fried Picnic Chicken originally appeared in Fried Chicken: An American Story (Putnam) by John T. Edge and appears here with permission.
The recipes for Elisabetta Lecce Baiamonte’s Devilish Eggs and Dorothy Steen’s Award-Winning Pimento Cheese Dip were originally published by Southern Foodways Alliance and appear here with permission
The recipe for Thomas Jefferson’s Vanilla Ice Cream is in the collection of Library of Congress. The museum at Monticello has logged mentions of the recipe and created a modern interpretation of the recipe.
Portions of the essay accompanying “Kate’s Compost Social Soup” and “Catching Fire” originally appeared in The New Yorker and appear here with the permission of the magazine.
For an up-to-date listing of websites, bloggers, and other organizations whose recipes appear in this book, please see www.OneBigTable.com.
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