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Hahaha.  "Water temp?"  Something's definitely fishy about that bug.

A feast for the palate, as well as the eyes.

Speaking of spaghetti houses... I'm flying down to Burbank next month for a Randy Fuller show and Chili John's is my first stop!

Recreating those cups of Boom Years percolated diner coffee, courtesy of the friendly folks at the 1961 Coffee Brewing Institute  :-) -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ4mQVlt-4o

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I think only the Waldorf could be considered a "hotel" creation... Baked Alaska and Newburg were signature dishes at Delmonico's, right?

Those were just classic American dishes that were popularized during that time but have since fallen out of fashion, like Steak Diane, Bananas Foster, etc. They would have ended up on hotel menus because the international cusine in fine dining establishments was typically Continental which mainly borrowed from French, Italian, German, and English recipes like Chateaubriand, Wellington, etc. American hotel menus would mostly consist of steak and seafood. The only other international food at that time was Pan Asian - more or less American Chinese which was primarily westernized versions of Cantonese food on the East Coast (Manhattan) and Szechuan on the West (San Francisco).

You can add the Hot Brown to the hotel list though!

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