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THE OLD
CODWEH PALACE AT
MEIGGS'S WHARF
BOHEMIAN
SAN FRANCISCO
ITS RESTAURANTS
AND THEIR MOST FAMOUS
RECIPES • THE ELEGANT
ART OF DINING
By
CLARENCE E. EDWORDS
PAUL ELDER AND COMPANY
PUBLISHERS • SAN FRANCISCO
COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY
PALL ELDER AND COMPANY
SAN FRANCISCO
f
LIBRARY
UMVERSITY OF CAT.IFORNIA
SA.\TA BARBARA
DEDICATION
TO WHOM SHALL I DEDICATE THIS BOOK?
TO SOME GOOD FRIEND? TO SOME PLEASANT COMPANION?
TO NONE OF THESE, FOR FROM THEM CAME NOT THE INSPIRATION.
TO WHOM, THEN?
TO THE BEST OF ALL BOHEMIAN COMRADES,
MY WIFE.
FOREWORD
No apologies are offered for this book. In fact, we
rather like it. Many years have been spent in gathering
this information, and naught is written in malice, nor
through favoritism, our expressions of opinion being
unbiased by favor or compensation. We have made
our own investigation and given our own ideas.
That our opinion does not coincide with that of
others does not concern us in the least, for we are
pleased only with that which pleases us, and not that
with which others say we ought to be pleased.
If this sound egotistical we are sorry, for it is not
meant in that way. We believe that each and every
individual should judge for him or herself, considering
ourselves fortunate that our ideas and tastes are held in
common.
San Franciscans, both residential and transient, are
a pleasure-loving people, and dining out is a distinc-
tive feature of their pleasure. With hundreds of res-
taurants to select from, each specializing on some
particular dish, or some peculiar mode of preparation,
one often becomes bewildered and turns to familiar
names on the menu card rather than venture into fields
that are new, of strange and rare dishes whose un-
pronounceable names of themselves frequently are
sufficient to discourage those unaccustomed to the art
and science of cooking practiced by those whose lives
have been spent devising means of tickling fastidious
palates of a city of gourmets.
In order that those who come within our gates, and
many others who have resided here in blindness for
years, may know where to go and what to eat, and
that they may carry away with them a knowledge of
how to prepare some of the dishes pleasing to the taste
and nourishing to the body, that have spread San
Francisco's fame over the world, we have decided to
set down the result of our experience and study of
ix
FOREWORD
our Bohemian population and their ways, and also tell
where to find and how to order the best special dishes.
Over North Beach way we asked the chef of a little
restaurant how he cooked crab. He replied:
"The right way."
One often wonders how certain dishes are cooked
and we shall tell you "the right way."
It is hoped that when you read what is herein
written some of our pleasure may be imparted to you,
and with this hope the story of San Francisco's Bo-
hemianism is presented.
Clarence E. Edwords.
San Francisco, California,
September 22, lOU.
Our Toast
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Presented as published in 1914. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
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THE ELEGANT ART OF DINING
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THE OLD
CODWEH PALACE AT
MEIGGS'S WHARF
ITS RESTAURANTS
AND THEIR MOST FAMOUS
RECIPES • THE ELEGANT
ART OF DINING
By CLARENCE E. EDWORDS
PAUL ELDER AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS • SAN FRANCISCO
COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY
PALL ELDER AND COMPANY
f
LIBRARY
UMVERSITY OF CAT.IFORNIA
SA.\TA BARBARA
DEDICATION
TO WHOM SHALL I DEDICATE THIS BOOK?
TO SOME GOOD FRIEND? TO SOME PLEASANT COMPANION?
TO NONE OF THESE, FOR FROM THEM CAME NOT THE INSPIRATION.
TO WHOM, THEN?
TO THE BEST OF ALL BOHEMIAN COMRADES,
MY WIFE.
FOREWORD
No apologies are offered for this book. In fact, we rather like it. Many years have been spent in gathering this information, and naught is written in malice, nor through favoritism, our expressions of opinion being unbiased by favor or compensation. We have made our own investigation and given our own ideas.
That our opinion does not coincide with that of others does not concern us in the least, for we are pleased only with that which pleases us, and not that with which others say we ought to be pleased.
If this sound egotistical we are sorry, for it is not meant in that way. We believe that each and every individual should judge for him or herself, considering ourselves fortunate that our ideas and tastes are held in common.
San Franciscans, both residential and transient, are a pleasure-loving people, and dining out is a distinctive feature of their pleasure. With hundreds of restaurants to select from, each specializing on some particular dish, or some peculiar mode of preparation, one often becomes bewildered and turns to familiar names on the menu card rather than venture into fields that are new, of strange and rare dishes whose unpronounceable names of themselves frequently are sufficient to discourage those unaccustomed to the art and science of cooking practiced by those whose lives have been spent devising means of tickling fastidious palates of a city of gourmets.
In order that those who come within our gates, and many others who have resided here in blindness for years, may know where to go and what to eat, and that they may carry away with them a knowledge of how to prepare some of the dishes pleasing to the taste and nourishing to the body, that have spread San Francisco's fame over the world, we have decided to set down the result of our experience and study of
FOREWORD
our Bohemian population and their ways, and also tell where to find and how to order the best special dishes. Over North Beach way we asked the chef of a little restaurant how he cooked crab. He replied: "The right way." One often wonders how certain dishes are cooked and we shall tell you "the right way."
It is hoped that when you read what is herein written some of our pleasure may be imparted to you, and with this hope the story of San Francisco's Bohemianism is presented.
Clarence E. Edwords. San Francisco, California, September 22, 1914.
Our Toast