Koshland bioscience library’s culinary collection

Read about the Koshland bioscience library‘s (Berkeley, Calif.) culinary archive. The collection provides food for thought for local chefs, campus researchers, and home cooks. Most of the books were collected by George Holl, a San Francisco painter who was Fox Theatres’ West Coast art director during the first half of the 20th century and, in the words of the legendary San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen, “San Francisco’s No. 1 gourmet and connoisseur.”