Bohemian San Francisco: Its Restaurants and Their Most Famous Recipes

Clarence E. Edwords' book is both a culinary history that remains a reference and a reminder of just how different San Francisco has always been, despite how we think it just recently became the capital of the unconventional. Anthony Ashbolt quotes the familiar view of its contemporary Bohemianism as expressed by Jerry Kamstra in The Frisco Kid: "San Francisco is not American; it's what s left of America. It's the Great Wall of China of America's forgotten promises! Here in San Francisco ha...