Twain’s Feast

Novelist and food writer Andrew Beahrs is certainly a polymath. In Twain’s Feast, Beahrs—who has an M.A. in anthropology and archaeology as well as an M.F.A. in creative writing—writes eruditely about subjects as diverse as Mark Twain’s biography, the ecology of the Mississippi delta, the history of the Wampanoags of Massachusetts and a lot of food.…