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Coolbrith replied, "All by cookbooks and hoarded
recipes were cooked to ashes in our earthquake fire of 1906, and even their
memory incinerated. One, only, remains—a whole meal! But I'll be generous and
pass it along.
A Delicious Meal
Place: A nook under the trees; table, cloth, and dishes: a
paper spread upon the grass, paper-napkins and pocketknife.
Menu
Old-fashioned, home-made salt rising bread; fresh butter;
young green onions just pulled from the beds; water-cresses fresh from and
washed in the brook. Eat with sauce of appetite acquired by long tramp in the
fields. Drink: Vintage of Adam; cold, clear and sparkling from brook that grew
the cresses.
Can recommend this after a memory of twenty years, as the
most enjoyable meal ever eaten.
N.B.
Good anywhere, but best in California."
This and more in Ina Coolbrith: The Bittersweet Song of California's First Poet Laureate.
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Paintings by Edward Cucuel (1875-1954). Born in San
Francisco, Cucuel attended the San Francisco Art Institute at age fourteen.
