....”” Louis Agassiz added to this the knowledge that fish, like brains, were also rich in phosphorus, and speculated that the eating of fish might improve intelligence. Mark Twain ridiculed the assertion in 1871 in a widely published humorous letter to an aspiring author that nevertheless favorably...

...andrew beahrs While touring Europe in 1879, Mark Twain composed a long menu of the eighty American foods he professed to miss the most. Drawn from his own fondest memories of life in the United States, the menu allowed him to think of America without the bitterness that so often characterized his...