Not to the Future, nor to the Past;
No drink of Joy or Sorrow;
We drink alone to what will last;
Memories on the Morrow.
Let us live as Old Time passes;
To the Present let Bohemia bow.
Let us raise on high our glasses
To Eternity -the ever-living Now.
CONTENTS
Foreword ix
The Good Gray City 3
The Land of Bohemia 6
As It Was in the Beginning 8
When the Gringo Game 10
Early Italian Impression 12
Birth of the French Restaurant ... 16
At the Cliff House 21
Some Italian Restaurants 23
Impress of Mexico 29
On the Barbary Coast 33
The City That Was Passes 35
Sang the Swan Song 36
Bohemia of the Present 41
As It Is in Germany 46
In the Heart of Italy 50
A Breath of the Orient 54
Artistic Japan 57
Old and New Palace 60
At the Hotel St. Francis 63
Amid the Bright Lights 65
Around Little Italy 66
Where Fish Come in 76
Fish in Their Variety 80
Lobsters and Lobsters 85
King of Shell Fish 87
Lobster in Miniature 89
Clams and Abalones 91
Where Fish Abound 94
Some Food Variants 97
xiii
CONTENTS
About Dining 100
SoMKTiiiNG About Cooking 106
Told in a Whisper 110
Out of Nothing 115
Paste Makes Waist 117
Tips and Tipping 119
The Mythical Land 121
Appendix (How to Serve Wines, Recipes) . . 125
Index 137
TUf
BOHEMIAN
SAN FRANCISCO
"The best of all ways
To lengthen our days
Is to steal a few hours
From the night, my dear.
1
SAN FRANCISCO
San Francisco! Is there a land where the magic
of that name has not been felt? Bohemian San Fran-
cisco ! Pleasure-loving San Francisco !
Care-free San Francisco ! Yet withal THE GOOD
the city where liberty never means GRAY
license and where Bohemianism is CITY
not synonymous with Boorishness.
It was in Paris that a world traveler said to us:
"San Francisco! That wonderful city where you get
the best there is to eat, served in a manner that en-
hances its flavor and establishes it forever in your
memory."
Were one to write of San Francisco and omit men-
tion of its gustatory delights the whole world would
protest, for in San Francisco eating is an art and cook-
ing a science, and he who knows not what San Fran-
cisco provides knows neither art nor science.
Here have congregated the world's greatest chefs,
and when one exclaims in ecstacy over a wonderful
flavor found in some dingy restaurant, let him not be
surprised if he learn that the chef who concocted the
dish boasts royal decoration for tickling the palate of
some epicurean ruler of foreign land.
And why should San Francisco have achieved this
distinction in the minds of the gourmets?
Do not other cities have equally as good chefs, and
do not the people of other cities have equally as fine
gastronomic taste?
They have all this but with them is lacking "at-
mosphere."
Where do we find such romanticism as in San
Francisco? Where do we find so many strange char-
acters and happenings? All lending almost mystic
charm to the environment surrounding queer little
restaurants, where rare dishes are served, and where
one feels that he is in foreign land, even though he be
in the center of a high representative American city.
BOHEMIAN
San Francisco's cosmopolitanism is peculiar to
itself. Here are represented the nations of earth in
such distinctive colonies that one
THE GOOD might well imagine himself pos-
GRAY sessed of the magic carpet told of
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Not to the Future, nor to the Past; No drink of Joy or Sorrow; We drink alone to what will last; Memories on the Morrow. Let us live as Old Time passes; To the Present let Bohemia bow. Let us raise on high our glasses To Eternity -the ever-living Now.
CONTENTS
Foreword ix
The Good Gray City 3
The Land of Bohemia 6
As It Was in the Beginning 8
When the Gringo Game 10
Early Italian Impression 12
Birth of the French Restaurant ... 16
At the Cliff House 21
Some Italian Restaurants 23
Impress of Mexico 29
On the Barbary Coast 33
The City That Was Passes 35
Sang the Swan Song 36
Bohemia of the Present 41
As It Is in Germany 46
In the Heart of Italy 50
A Breath of the Orient 54
Artistic Japan 57
Old and New Palace 60
At the Hotel St. Francis 63
Amid the Bright Lights 65
Around Little Italy 66
Where Fish Come in 76
Fish in Their Variety 80
Lobsters and Lobsters 85
King of Shell Fish 87
Lobster in Miniature 89
Clams and Abalones 91
Where Fish Abound 94
Some Food Variants 97
CONTENTS
About Dining 100
Something About Cooking 106
Told in a Whisper 110
Out of Nothing 115
Paste Makes Waist 117
Tips and Tipping 119
The Mythical Land 121
Appendix (How to Serve Wines, Recipes) . . 125 Index 137
TUf
"The best of all ways To lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours From the night, my dear.
San Francisco! Is there a land where the magic of that name has not been felt? Bohemian San Francisco ! Pleasure-loving San Francisco ! Care-free San Francisco ! Yet withal THE GOOD the city where liberty never means GRAY
license and where Bohemianism is CITY
not synonymous with Boorishness.
It was in Paris that a world traveler said to us: "San Francisco! That wonderful city where you get the best there is to eat, served in a manner that enhances its flavor and establishes it forever in your memory."
Were one to write of San Francisco and omit mention of its gustatory delights the whole world would protest, for in San Francisco eating is an art and cooking a science, and he who knows not what San Francisco provides knows neither art nor science.
Here have congregated the world's greatest chefs, and when one exclaims in ecstacy over a wonderful flavor found in some dingy restaurant, let him not be surprised if he learn that the chef who concocted the dish boasts royal decoration for tickling the palate of some epicurean ruler of foreign land.
And why should San Francisco have achieved this distinction in the minds of the gourmets?
Do not other cities have equally as good chefs, and do not the people of other cities have equally as fine gastronomic taste?
They have all this but with them is lacking "atmosphere."
Where do we find such romanticism as in San Francisco? Where do we find so many strange characters and happenings? All lending almost mystic charm to the environment surrounding queer little restaurants, where rare dishes are served, and where one feels that he is in foreign land, even though he be in the center of a high representative American city.
San Francisco's cosmopolitanism is peculiar to
itself. Here are represented the nations of earth in
such distinctive colonies that one
THE GOOD might well imagine himself pos-
GRAY sessed of the magic carpet told of