12 Keepsake folders each containing an essay about the individual reproduction menu included inside the folder. 1. The Menu of a Welcome Home Dinner Given to Lt. James W. Carlin, USN by his Friends of The Bohemian Club 1889 at which Rudyard Kipling was present. Comentary by Joseph Henry Jackson. 2. Dinner Menu Palace Hotel San Francisco Wednesday Sep 10 1879 with a list of their wines. Lucius Beebe. 3. Banquet Menu Hon. Anson Burlingame & Chinese Ambassadors Lick House San Francisco Tuesday Apr 28 1868. Oscar Lewis. 4. Menu 6th Annual Dinner San Fran Medical Benevolent Society, The Baldwin Sat Jan 31 1880. Salvatore Lucia. 5. Menu Journalistic & Typographical Banquet The French Rotisserie Virginia City Nevada March 23 1879. Phil Townsend Hanna. 6. Bill of Fare & Wine List St. Francis Hotel Sat Jan 19 1850. Lawton Mackall. 7. Luncheon for POTUS Benjamin F. Harrison Sutro Heights Apr 27 1891. Lindley Bynum. 8. Banquet Menu for Grand Commandery of California Knights Templar Occidental Hotel Tues Oct 18 1864. M.F.K. Fisher. 9. Bill of Fare Pacific Mail Steamship Tennessee Nov 23 1851. Robert O'Brien. 10. Free Lunch & Commercial Lunch Menus The Palace of Art San Francisco. Francis Lewis Gould. 11. Program & Bill of Fare Midway Plaisane afe & Vaudeville Theatre July 3 1899. Henry Perry. 12. Table d'Hote Menu & Music Program Blanco's Nov 7 1907. Ruth Teiser. The End.

Enclosed by a handsome navy slipcase, gilt titling to spine. See the Vine in Early California. ( )

Bonanza Banquets is a set of 12 facsimile menus for banquets served in San Francisco between 1850 and 1907. Each menu is accompanied by commentary by such writers as Joseph Henry Jackson, Oscar Lewis, Lucius Beebe and M.F.K. Fisher. Jackson is also the editor of the series. M.F.K. Fisher's selection is menu # 8, "Commentary On A Banquet For The Grand Commandery Of The California Knights Templar At The Occidental Hotel On Tuesday, October 18, 1964"

The entire series was gathered in this volume and bound in quarter leather by a former archivist at the University of California, Riverside named Clifford Wurfel. His initials and the date bound, 1977, are found on the back cover. The book is about 6 1/2" by 10 1/4".

This is a one-of-a-kind volume.

Series of 12 keepsakes in a limited edition of 850 printed by Ward Ritchie.
Each keepsake is a finely-printed facsimile menu of a historical California menu accompanied by contemporary commentary.
M.F.K. Fisher's contribution is a commentary on the menu for a "Banquet for the Grand Commandery of the California Knights Templar"
held at the Occidental Hotel in 1864.