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Galloping Gourmet: Eating and Drinking with Buffalo Bill

By (author) Steve Friesen

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Silver Medal Winner for the 2024 Will Rogers Medallion Finalist for the 2024 Colorado Book AwardÂ Galloping Gourmet explores an unfamiliar side of a familiar character in American history, William F. â€œBuffalo Billâ€ Cody. In this entertaining narrative Steve Friesen explores the evolving role of eating and drinking in Buffalo Billâ€™s life (1846â€“1917). Friesen starts with Buffalo Billâ€™s culinary roots on the American Plains, eating simple foods such as cornbread, fried â€œyellow-leggedâ€ chicken, and hardtack. Buffalo Bill discovered gourmet dining while leading buffalo-hunting expeditions and scouting. As his fame increased, so did his desire and opportunities for fine dining: his early show business career allowed him to dine at some of the best restaurants in the country. Friesen examines the creation of Buffalo Billâ€™s Wild West Show in 1883, in which Cody introduced his diverse cast of employees to dining that equaled Americaâ€™s best restaurants. One newspaper reporter observed that â€œColonel Cody displays no more care about anything than the proper feeding of horse and man.â€ Cody opened the first Mexican restaurant east of the Mississippi and introduced American foodways to Europe. Equally comfortable eating around a campfire on the plains or at Delmonicoâ€™s in New York City, he also dined with leading celebrities of his day. In the final section Friesen addresses the controversies surrounding Codyâ€™s drinking, his death, and his ongoing culinary legacy. Galloping Gourmet includes an appendix of more than thirty annotated period recipes.