Yone Noguchi arranges a Japanese dinner for Brooklyn writer Helen Bridgman in the days before Japanese restaurants. "You may turn up your nose at the idea of raw fish, but when served after being chilled in ice water, amidst this wonderful little garden of herbs, the green, white and orange all taking effect from the blue of the plate, there is nothing more palatable."
A Brief Illustrated History of The Palace Hotel of San Francisco
The Palace Hotel in downtown San Francisco (1895) The Palace Hotel occupied the entire block upon the south west corner of New Montgomery and Market Streets; directly across New Montgomery Street, the gingerbread Grand Hotel was eventually connected to the Palace by a covered bridge between the two buildings' second floors, seen here at the lower left.
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