California
4 dishes from California, cooked the way the place cooks them.
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Cobb Salad
Four greens chopped to a fine dice, with poached chicken, bacon, avocado, egg, tomato, chives and Roquefort laid across the top in stripes and mixed in at the last second with an old-fashioned French dressing — the Brown Derby salad as the dated documents give it, quartered for a household and worked out for this page.
- Total
- 1 hr 5 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 718 per serving
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French Dip
A lean round of beef roasted dry, rested, sliced sixteen to the pound and laid on a toasted hard roll, with the roasting pan deglazed into stock for the jus — the Los Angeles sandwich as the documents describe it, with the quantities worked out for this page.
- Total
- 1 hr 55 min
- Serves
- 6
- Calories
- 560 per serving
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Cioppino
Rock cod, Dungeness crab, clams and mussels in a tomato and red wine broth built on onion, garlic, parsley and a melted anchovy — the San Francisco fishermen's stew, worked out from the two earliest printed recipes, both of them from 1918 and 1921.
- Total
- 1 hr 15 min
- Serves
- 6
- Calories
- 330 per serving
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San Diego Fish Tacos
Lean white fish in a cold beer batter, fried hard and laid in a doubled corn tortilla with shredded cabbage, a thinned lime mayonnaise and salsa — the Baja taco as San Diego County has been eating it since at least 1983.
- Total
- 45 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 680 per serving
