The EDGEWATER BEACH HOTEL SALAD BOOK
by Shircliffe, Arnold
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
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Sacramento, California, United States
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About This Item
Small 4to, decorated/embossed green cloth. 1st ed, second printing, in d/w and scarce publisher's box. Flat-signed by the author on FEP. 16 color plates. xxi, 265 pp
CONDITION: A VG-NF copy. Light foxing to fore and top edges; rear endpaper creased. Jacket: moderately foxed/stained with several closed tears up to 1". Box: Poor, lower half intact but with one corner split, moderate exterior soiling. Upper half: greater soiling with substantial chipping, all 4 corners split.
In the 1920s The Edgewater Beach Hotel was famous for wide variety of salads. This book: "Contains recipes that have taken years of research to collect; also many new recipes. It is a ready reminder for the experienced salad maker, and furnishes invaluable working knowledge to those who have natural talent for this work."
Chef/author Arnold Shircliffe spent his life in the catering trade, working first in railroad dining cars, then the Army, hotels, clubs, and restaurants. After two decades he became catering manager of the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago, and later manager.
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo & Dicker Books & Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The EDGEWATER BEACH HOTEL SALAD BOOK
- Author
- Shircliffe, Arnold
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Hotel Monthly Press, Chicago
- Date Published
- 1929
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Cooking, culinary, recipes, salads, cookbooks, restaurants, hotels
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cooking & Culinary Arts;
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