ALSO BY MOLLY O’NEILL Mostly True: A Memoir of Family, Food, and Baseball New York Cookbook: From Pelham Bay to Park Avenue, Firehouses to Four- Star Restaurants Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 www.SimonandSchuster.com Copyright © 2010 by Molly O’Neill All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information address Simon & Schuster Subsidiary Rights Department, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020 First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition November 2010 SIMON & SCHUSTER and colophon are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc. For information about special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact Simon & Schuster Special Sales at 1-866-506-1949 or [email protected]. The Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau can bring authors to your live event. For more information or to book an event contact the Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau at 1-866-248-3049 or visit our website at www.simonspeakers.com. Designed by Joel Avirom and Jason Snyder Images edited by Rebecca Busselle Permissions and acknowledgments appear on page 862. Manufactured in the United States of America 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data O’Neill, Molly. One big table : A portrait of American cooking : 600 recipes from the nation’s best home cooks, farmers, fishermen, pit-masters, and chefs / by Molly O’Neill. p. cm. 1. Cooking—United States. I. Title. TX907.2.O54 2010 641.50973—dc22 2010028841 ISBN 978-0-7432-3270-8 ISBN 987-1-4516-0977-6 (ebook) For Rebecca Busselle, photographer, writer, cook, colleague, fellow traveler, and friend, with gratitude as large as the America we discovered, mile by mile, dish by dish, story by story. “BAD DINNERS GO HAND IN HAND WITH TOTAL DEPRAVITY, WHILE A WELL-FED MAN IS ALREADY HALF SAVED.” —The New Kentucky Home Cook Book, 1884