Restaurant-ing through history

To gather recipes for the Sardi’s cookbook Curtain Up at Sardi’s [1957], co-author Helen Bryson spent two and half weeks, six days each week, in Sardi’s restaurant kitchen. She asked a lot of questions about …

This morning I heard a story on the radio about Caesar salad that claimed today was the salad’s 100th birthday. I can understand that it becomes difficult to come up with holiday stories that are …

There is nothing as interesting (to me) as a memoir about a restaurant from an insider who reveals its workings not usually known to customers. Papa’s Table d’Hôte by Maria Sermolino is such a memoir, …