Mark Preston wrote:

> <snip>
>
> I am having to do this from memory.
>
> George L. Herter wrote a 3 volume set of books on food and cooking.
>
> It will have the "origins" of the Monte Cristo sandwich, I am fairly
> sure.
>
> You may have to ask your local public library to borrow it; if they
> themselves don't have it.
>
> Good luck.

Aw, jeez, Mark. We've been through the lightweight phoniness and plain
nonsense of Herter's "facts" before. I wouldn't trust his books to
hold up a short table leg.

It's not in Herter's "Bull Cook" (about which it becomes obvious after
a moment's reading, is missing one word in the title).

Pastorio