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Cooking with Ye Oldest of Ye Olde
The Union Oyster House in Boston, which bills itself as America’s oldest restaurant, has issued its first cookbook. And it only took 200 years. The Boston Herald has the scoop:
The newly published “Union Oyster House Cookbook” (Seapoint Books, $12.95) is everything you’d want from America’s oldest restaurant. Lots of recipes, appetizing food photographs and fascinating facts about the legendary eatery, which was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2003.
The earliest standing-brick edifice in Boston (constructed circa 1716), the Union Oyster House building was an important site long before it served food - housing an early Revolutionary-era newspaper, serving as headquarters for Continental Army paymaster Ebenezer Hancock and as temporary home to Louis Philippe, the future king of France.
It wasn’t until 1826 that the building became a restaurant, famous for its semicircular oyster bar in the front window. Union Oyster House was a haunt of local politicians from Daniel Webster to John Michael Curley and John F. Kennedy. A slew of celebrities, including Meryl Streep, Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio and Tiger Woods, have dined there as well.
Mistakenly left off that eminent list? Me! More here. Pick up the book here.
