Victor Hirtzler

The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book is a book by Victor Hirtzler. A cookbook for high profile hotel guests, each day of the year with a different menu provides culinarians with hundreds of recipes for eating pleasure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: e-artnow
• Seitenzahl: 529
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 4066339554597
• Artikelnr.: 69689947

Autorenporträt

Victor Hirtzler was a distinguished chef whose culinary mastery and creativity left a formidable legacy in American gastronomy, particularly during the early 20th century. Hirtzler cemented his reputation as the head chef of the iconic Hotel St. Francis in San Francisco, where he served between the years of 1904 and 1926. His tenure at the hotel coincided with the momentous 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, a world's fair for which the Hotel St. Francis prepared extensively, further consolidating its status as a culinary destination under Hirtzler's leadership. In his celebrated work, 'The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book' (1919), Hirtzler compiled a robust collection of recipes and cooking advice, interspersing it with stories that offer a glimpse into the bustling kitchen of the historic hotel. The book remains a valuable resource for culinary historians and a testament to the lavish banquets and innovative dishes that characterized his approach to cuisine. Hirtzler's style, marked by French influences and a flair for presentation, significantly influenced the culinary scene of his time, bridging European sophistication with emerging American tastes. His contributions continue to be studied and appreciated by chefs and gastronomes worldwide, and his book is a treasured artifact of culinary history.