The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book (Hirtzler)$3.00
The author was chef of Hotel St. Francis, San Francisco. Adapted for hotels, restaurants, clubs, coffee rooms, families and every place where high-class, wholesome cuisine is desired. This is the most important culinary book that has come from any press in the last twenty-five years. Mr. Hirtzler is known thruout Europe and America as one of the ablest chefs of the day. He made the cuisine of the Hotel St. Francis world-famous. A feature of the Hotel St. Francis Cook Book that will be appreciated by thousands of hotel people, caterers, families and all interested in home economics, is the selection and preparation of foods in season; the presentation of breakfast, luncheon and dinner menus for every day in the year—the selections appropriate, and all dishes actually prepared and served in the Hotel St. Francis. This feature of the book gives a suggestive quality, a reminder attribute, and a knowledge of food economies and food attributes that is hereby brought to the aid of the proficient and the learner, also enables even the inexperienced to produce the well-balanced menu. The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book is indexed and cross indexed so that every recipe can be referred to on the instant.
The Edgewater Salad Book (Shircliffe)$5.00
Contains more than 600 tested recipes for salads and salad dressings. Mr. Shircliffe has not only given the recipes, but in many cases has supplemented them with author's notes, calling attention to special health-giving features, and suggesting diets for the different ailments that afflict humans. He also takes opportunity to preach many a short sermon on the importance of right eating and what is best for health from the cradle to old age. He also intersperses much of human interest in the way of anecdote, legend and historic events. In this way it is more than a cook book—it is readable to those who are not so much interested in how to make salads as in the enjoyment of them. The great charm of the book is the illustrations, which are from direct photographs in the natural colors, so that the dishes illustrated have the eye-appeal and the enticing qualities of the real dish. It is a book that fits into every kitchen—home, hotel, club, hospital, restaurant, lunch room, cafeteria, steamship, dining car, industrial catering plant, institution, army mess—in fact, wherever information is desired as to the why and how to prepare for the table.
The Edgewater Salad Portfolio (Shircliffe)$2.00
A set of beautiful illustrations of salads taken from the Edgewater Beach Salad Book. They are mounted on heavy green cover stock, 8-7/8 × 11-1/4 inches, each showing one or two of the salads, and are suitable for framing. The portfolio may be used by the maître d'hôtel to assist him in selling party menus. The illustrations are so natural and appetizing that they make strong appeal to patrons when selecting the salad course for special menus. Also these pictures serve as a guide to pantry girls, showing them how the finished salad should look.
The Edgewater Sandwich Book (Shircliffe)$2.00
Supplemented with chapters on hors d'oeuvres, supremes, canapes and relishes. More than 600 recipes. This book is by the author of the Edgewater Salad Book, the most important culinary book produced in recent years. There are thirty illustrations of sandwiches and hors d'oeuvres. It will meet the requirements of all kinds of refreshment places from the soda fountain to lunch room, tea room and high-class restaurant. Bound in convenient pocket size.
A Selection of Dishes and the Chef's Reminder (Fellows)$1.00
The book that has met with the largest sale and is in most demand from managers, stewards and cooks. It is in vest pocket form, 220 pages. The most complete and serviceable pocket reference book to culinary matters that has ever been published. It is not a cook book, in the general sense of the word, but is full of ideas and suggestions regarding bill-of-fare dishes. Chapters are devoted to entrees of all kinds, salads, soups, consommes, fish and their sauces, sauces in general, garnishes, fancy potatoes, miscellaneous recipes, hints to cooks and stewards, suggestion for breakfast, lunch and supper dishes, chafing dish cookery, menus, and a pronouncing glossary of culinary terms. Hundreds of the dishes listed are given with their bill-of-fare names only, as the cooks understand the basic work in preparing dishes, and the sauces and garnishes are treated separately, with information as to their component parts. Thousands of men who possess a copy of this book say it is their greatest help. Printed on bond paper, bound in flexible cover.