City Tavern Cookbook: 200 Years of Classic Recipes from America's First Gourmet Restaurant by Walter Staib

  • Peppered smoked salmon on potato pancakes (page 19)

    from City Tavern Cookbook: 200 Years of Classic Recipes from America's First Gourmet Restaurant City Tavern Cookbook by Walter Staib

    • Categories: Pancakes, waffles & crêpes; Appetizers / starters; American
    • Ingredients: red-skinned potatoes; all-purpose flour; whole milk; egg; unsalted butter; fresh parsley; smoked salmon
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  • ISBN 10 0762405295
  • ISBN 13 9780762405299
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  • Published Aug 27 1999
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 224
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Running Press
  • Imprint Running Press,U.S.

Publishers Text

In May 1774, soon after City Tavern opened for business, Paul Revere arrived at its doors to announce Parliament's closing the port of Boston. In 1777, the Tavern hosted America's first official Fourth of July celebration. And in 1789, this landmark inn held a banquet for George Washington as he passed through Philadelphia en route to New York for his presidential inauguration.Through the Revolutionary period and the early republic, City Tavern was the center of American political and social life. More than a meeting place for prominent Americans, the Tavern also acquired a reputation as the best restaurant in North America, the setting for suppers, “as elegant as was ever laid on a table,” according to John Adams. Since Philadelphia's seaport was the lively center of eighteenth-century commerce, it's no surprise that it was here that the finest imported foodstuffs, Madeiras, clarets, and exotic fruits and spices met the bounty of the New World, giving the City Tavern chef an unlimited supply of ingredients.More than two hundred years later, the Tavern is still garnering high praise for its gourmet cuisine and elegant atmosphere. The fusion of classic European cookery, American game and produce, and exotic island spices enjoyed by early visitors to the Tavern is recreated every day by chef/proprietor Walter Staib. City Tavern Cookbook reveals the richness and diversity of the eighteenth-century table. Within these pages are 200 authentic recipes that capture the best of early American gourmet cuisine. These dishes, updated for modern tastes, include world-famous West Indies Pepper Pot Soup, Roasted Duckling with Peach Chutney, Lobster Potpie, Thomas Jefferson's Sweet Potato Biscuits, plus Martha Washington's Chocolate Mousse Cake. With fascinating historic tidbits and trivia that bring eighteenth-century American gastronomy to life, City Tavern Cookbook offers the reader a delicious lesson in culinary history.

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