BEAUTIFUL B & O RAILROAD RECIPES & PHOTO HISTORY BOOK

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BEAUTIFUL B & O RAILROAD RECIPES & PHOTO HISTORY BOOK A TERRIFIC ILLUSTRATED HISTORY Of TheRECIPES Of The B & O RAILROAD DINING ON THE B & ORECIPES AND SIDELIGHTS FROM A BYGONE AGETHIS TERRIFIC, DELUXE HARDBOUND BOOK IS A MUST FOR RAILFANS & CULINARY BUFFSRecipes and Sidelights from a Bygone Age Thomas J. Greco and Karl D. Spence in Association with the B& O Railroad Museum Passengers who dined on the Baltimore and Ohio during the heyday of American railroading received five-star service: white tablecloths, china, and silver; food cooked from scratch; and the undivided attention of skilled waiters. The B& O's cuisine won wide acclaim as the finest railway food in the country. Passengers enjoyed it as the slightly swaying dining car Captivated by the romance of the subject, Thomas J. Greco and Karl D. Spence combine many of the B& O's best recipes with historical photos to capture the elegance and charm of the dining car experience. Greco and Spence made a quest of uncovering the original sources of these recipes, revisiting America's first institutional cookbook, The Culinary Handbook , by Charles Fellows, and researching the B& O's own specialty collections of the 1940s and 1950s, the Old Standard B& O Recipes, What's Cooking on the B& O? and B& O Chef's Notes . Along with the original recipes and modern interpretations, they read more