Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-441) and index.

The Northeast eats -- Eating in Vermont / Roaldus Richmond -- Vermont foods / Cora A. Moore -- Rhode Island May breakfasts / Walter Hackett -- Dishes New York City's hotels gave America / Allan Ross MacDougall -- New York literary tea / Jerry Felsheim -- The automat / Edward O'Brien -- New York soda-luncheonette slang and jargon -- Drugstore lunch / Edward O'Brien -- Italian feed in Vermont / Mari Tomasi -- Long Island rabbit stew: hasenpfeffer -- North Whitefield, Maine, game supper / Donald McCormick -- Raising mushrooms in Pennsylvania -- Vermont sugaring-off / Roaldus Richmond -- An editorial memorandum on clams / James Francis Davis -- Maine clambake / Harry M. Freeman -- New York indoor clam-bake / M. Metevier -- Rhode Island clam chowder / Walter Hackett and Henry Manchester -- Long Island clam chowder -- Maine chowders / Mabel G. Hall -- Oyster stew supreme at Grand Central, New York / Allan Ross MacDougall -- Rhode Island jonny cakes / Henry Manchester and William Baker -- Beans / James Francis Davis -- Main baked beans / Mabel G. Hall -- Kenneth Roberts' Maine-style hot buttered rum / Donald McCormick.

The South eats -- Mississippi food / Eudora Welty -- Recipes from prominent North Carolinians / Katherine Palmer -- Recipes from Arkansas -- Foods along U.S. 1 in Virginia / Eudora Ramsay Richardson -- Mississippi African-American recipes -- Diddy-Wah-Diddy / Zora Neale Hurston -- Brown Hotel's Christmas dinner, Louisville, Kentucky, 1940 -- Alabama footwashing at Lonely Dale / Jack Kytle -- Coca-cola parties in Georgia -- Delaware's Big Quarterly -- South Carolina backwoods barbecue / Genevieve Wilcox Chandler -- Mississippi barbecue sauce -- The Possum Club of Polk County, Arkansas -- Georgia possum and taters -- Exotic Florida -- Kentucky ham bone soup -- Kentucky burgoo -- Sergeant Saunders' Virginia Brunswick stew / J.B. Cook -- North Carolina Chitterling Strut / Katherine Palmer -- Menu for Chitterling Strut -- Mississippi chitlins -- Kentucky oysters -- Louisiana "Tête de Veau" / H. Michinard -- Kentucky wilted lettuce -- North Carolina oyster roasts -- Eufaula, Alabama, oyster roast / Gertha Couric -- Georgia oyster roast / Louise Jones Dubose -- Fish fry on the levee, Mississippi -- Mississippi mullet salad -- The baked fish of Alabama's Coast / François Ledgere Diard -- Conch eats conch and grunts, Florida -- Josephine's Mississippi crabs -- Maryland crabs -- Florida shrimp pilau supper (St. Augustine) / Rose Shepherd -- South Carolina chicken bog / Louise Jones Dubose -- Virginia chicken / John W. Thomas -- The use and manufacture of filé in Mississippi / Jack Bathia -- Grandma Smith's Mississippi hoecake -- Florida hush puppies -- Kentucky spoon bread -- Mississippi molasses pie -- Divinity chocolates of Kentucky -- Alabama cane grindings and candy pullings / Gertha Couric -- Alabama eggnog / Jack Kytle -- Kentucky eggnog -- Old Fashioned cocktail -- Mississippi pear wine / Clarence Kerns -- The mint julep controversy -- "Original Kentucky" mint julep (Frankfort Distilleries) -- "Original Kentucky" mint julep (Drake Hotel) -- Mississippi mint juleps.

The Middle West eats -- Nebraskans eat the weiners / Hans Christensen -- Urban Kansas eats and drinks -- Sioux and Chippewa food / Frances Densmore -- Nebraska buffalo barbecue -- Nebraska pop corn days / M.C. Nelson -- Wisconsin sour-dough pancakes -- Nebraska baked beans / J. Willis Kratzer -- Cooking for the threshers in Nebraska / Estella Tenbrink -- Wisconsin and Minnesota lutefisk -- Indiana pork cake / Hazel M. Nixon -- Nebraska lamb and pig fries / H.J. Moss -- Kansas beef tour / William Lindsay White -- Comments to Parker T. Van de Mark, November 4, 1941 -- Nebraska eats pheasants / H.J. Moss -- Nebraska cooks its rabbits / H.J. Moss -- Minnesota booya picnic -- Indiana persimmon pudding -- A short history of the American diet / Nelson Algren.

The Far West eats -- Oregon salmon barbecue / Joseph McLaughlin -- Puget Sound Indian salmon feasts -- Washington's Geoduck clams -- A Washington community smelt fry / Carroll Kennedy -- Montana fried beaver tail / Edward B. Reynolds -- Oregon wild duck / Joseph McLaughlin -- Utah salmi of wild duck / William H. Meal -- Washington wildcat parties / Carroll Kennedy -- Foraging in Montana / Edward B. Reynolds -- Montana dulce / Edward B. Reynolds -- Washington aplets and cotlets -- Colorado superstitions -- Washington State hot school lunches -- The Basques of the Boise Valley / Raymond Thompson -- Western revolving tables / Edward B. Reynolds -- Oregon pioneer memories / Sara Wrenn -- Two recipes from the Bohemia District of Oregon / Joseph McLaughlin -- An Oregon protest against mashed potatoes / Claire Warner Churchill -- The potatoes of Kow Kanyon, Oregon / Joseph McLaughlin -- Depression cake / Michael Kennedy and Edward B. Reynolds -- Oregon blue ruin / Andrew Sherbert.

The Southwest eats -- Iowa picnic in Los Angeles / John Moste -- Food à la Concentrate in Los Angeles / Don Dolan -- A Los Angeles sandwich called a taco / Don Dolan -- A California grunion fry / Charles J. Sullivan -- La Merienda in New Mexico -- Choctaw Indian dishes / Peter J. Hudson -- Funeral Cry Feast of the Choctaws -- Arizona out-of-doors cookery / Edward Parrish Ware -- Notes on Oklahoma pioneer eating -- An Arizona menudo party / J. Del Castillo -- Tucson's menudo party -- When John Walton became Governor of Oklahoma -- Oklahoma scrambled eggs and wild onions -- Texas chuck wagon -- Oklahoma prairie oysters -- Oklahoma kush -- Oklahoma City's famous Suzi-Q potatoes.