![]() ![]() ![]() A menu! Everett has food! And throughout its history, Everett has been home to hundreds of restaurants, cafes, bakeries, pubs, saloons, and diners! Inspired by the low menu prices and the clever items on the menu, we dug into the archives looking for more of Everett’s delicious past.Īfter pulling the rest of our artifacts and photographs for the exhibit, we decided to look into the Gaffney’s Cafe menu a little more to get a picture of the restaurant business in early Everett. ![]() Gaffney and was located at 1507 Hewitt Ave, where the Everpark Garage sits today. James Gaffney first appears in the Polk directories in 1911 as a cook. He continues in this line of work for the next 8 years or so, working at Weiser’s Cafe for part of that time. Around 1919, James becomes the owner and manager of Union Cafe, located at 1507 Hewitt Ave. Union Cafe eventually becomes Gaffney’s Cafe and runs until about 1932 when it disappears from the directory. Now, of course I couldn’t just stop there. What would be the fun of learning about the restaurant business without getting a little taste of it ourselves? And what better way to do that then to try it at home! I turn my attention to the breakfast menu to see if there’s anything I have a chance of recreating. Everett Sausage Fest2619 Cedar SteetEverett, Washington 98201September 27 - 29 NoonLive Music, Kids Games and Activities, Carnival Rides, Beer Garden. I have only made poached eggs before in one of those microwave things. You know what I’m talking about, right? Break the eggs into each little cup, close the lid, microwave until it starts to explode and hope for the best? I’m assuming this is not how James Gaffney made poached eggs and since I’ve never made them the traditional way, naturally I’ll be trying it for the first time in front of an audience. I needed some sides to go with my eggs so I decided to recreate the homemade sausage and sliced peaches on the menu. I also noticed an ad in the back of the menu that tells us that Gaffney’s only served Bargreen’s Coffee. This could not be any more perfect we’re only a few blocks from Bargreen’s! Nite Wave performs Live 80s New Wave at Everett Sausage Fest Friday, September 27th from 830-10 pm Live Music, Kids Games, Carnival Rides, Beer Garden, Local Food and Vendor fare at our Bavarian themed festival. My next step was to find recipes for our menu items because I’m not a good cook. Luckily, we have many cookbooks in the archives that are full of recipes with vague directions and weird ingredients. This is the fun part.Ĭarefully looking through dozens of cookbooks is no easy feat, especially when many of them lack reference pages and none of them are digitized. This copy of the cookbook was published in 1901 and is a glorious treasure trove of recipes.Įventually I found poached eggs in The Home Queen Cook Book. There must be over a thousand recipes in this thing. ![]()
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