Standard's Famous Southern Creole Recipes, featuring New Orleans Cooking, circa late 1940's to the early 1950's. A cookbook and a time capsule all in one! Scattered among the recipes are vintage full page ads for household products: Mirro Matic pressure cookers, Club Aluminum cookware, Wm Rogers Silver-plated silverware, Hall Fine China and an iron offered by General Mills under the Betty Crocker moniker. There are 200 original recipes ranging from seafood, salads and vegetables, meat & poultry, cakes & breads, cookies & candies, pies & desserts, to coffees and teas.
There are seven restaurants featured, each contributing one recipe ~ The Hermitage (Nashville), Knots Berry Farm (Anaheim, CA), Occidental (Richmond, VA), Iron Gate (possibly Washington, D.C.) and two from New Orleans ~ Galatoire's and Antoine's. And in a weird twist, the final restaurant was located in the tiny town where I attended college, Casa de Fresa in Hammond, Louisiana. The restaurant operated from from 1932 to 1966 when it closed its doors. A few months after it was designated historical status, the restaurant burned to the ground in April of 1979, a year before I started college.
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