Lobster Box

The Lobster Box Restaurant is featured in Volume 5 of The Ford Times Cookbook, 1968. Here is a drawing based on the painting by Harvey Kidder. The book's entry says that The Lobster Box is in a century-old mansion and is the oldest landmark on City Island, New York, on Long Island Sound. It claims they serve lobster 21 ways, and includes a recipe for Lobster Newburg.





























These photographs, taken July 2010, confirm that the Lobster Box is still open every day at 34 City Island Avenue, Bronx, New York. City Island is an actual island, full of fascinating restaurants, and is reachable by automobile bridge. It feels remote and of a different time, yet is only minutes from the city—at least on those rare occasions when there is no traffic.

Wentworth-by-the-Sea

This is our staff artist's reproduction of the William Barss painting of Wentworth-by-the-Sea from the 1955 edition of The Ford Treasury of Favorite Recipes from Famous Eating Places. The historic resort hotel was built in 1874 in New Castle, New Hampshire, near Portsmouth. The description in the cookbook boasts a salt-water swimming pool. The recipe is for New Hampshire Fruit Cookies. The hotel was closed in 1982 and nearly demolished. It was saved, however, renovated, and reopened in 2003. The photographs here are from 2009.

Frenchy's Restaurant

This is a repro-duction drawn by one of our staff artists, inspired by the painting of Frenchy's Restaurant by C. L. Peterson in the Ford Times Cookbook, Volume 5, published in 1968.

The recipe listed in the cookbook is for "Braised Calves' Sweetbreads in Wine Sauce."