Antique Hotelware Platter - St Anthony Hotel - Texas Restaurant Ware circa 1909 pink peonies This edition features black-and-white food

This edition features black-and-white food photography throughout

rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks

but for now

a nested set of three containing pink tulips and wildflowers

she was inexperienced to start but a newfound love of cooking eventually led to her taking a cooking class with James Beard

Antique Hotelware Platter - St Anthony Hotel - Texas Restaurant Ware circa 1909 pink peonies This edition features black-and-white food{HISTORY} Like so many vintage restaurantware and hotelware serving pieces, this vintage platter tells three stories in one the history of the maker (Lamberton Works), the history of the distributor (Albert Pick & Company), and the history of the esteemed establishment for which it was made (St. Anthony Hotel). The oldest story of the three starts with the distributor, Albert Pick, an Austrian immigrant, who opened up a dish shop in Chicago in 1857.