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Show BOHEMIAN SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco may be likened unto a mosaic of life set on a foundation of romance, Its surface sur-face alluring and its sub-structure fascinating, with a binding cement of mystery holding together to-gether all the strange manners and customs of its cosmopolitan population. "In Bohemian San Francisco, Its ftestaurants and Their Most Famous Recipes," pi.jllshed in fine style by Paul Elder and Company, San Francisco, Dr. Clarence E. Edwards unfolds living liv-ing pictures of the queer and quaint foreign quarters quar-ters of the city, and we are shown the daily life of those who have brought even the environment of Mother Land and set it down in the midst of a great metropolis. Their foods and how prepared pre-pared forms a most interesting feature of the book, and through it we learn many of the peculiar pe-culiar secrets which give such exquisite flavor to certain dishes. A glance at the chapter headings shows that a new light has been thrown on San Francisco's cosmopolitanism. One senses the beginning of good living in "Birth of the French Restaurant." Nationalities are given vivid coloring in "Impress 4 of Mexico," "As It is in Germany," "In the Heart of Italy" and "A Breath of the Orient." The weird description of Fishermen's Wharf, in the chapter "Where the Fish Come In," gives one a new Insight Into a most fascinating part of the city. "Some Food Variants," telling of the different differ-ent methods of preparing similar materials, and "Something About Cooking," with sixty famous recipes, give some idea of the scope of the book. Those who are interested In San Francisco's restaurant life will learn where to get the best there is, served the best way, and it is all told without bias or favor, making it doubly valuable as a memento of "The City Loved Around the World." |