1935 - Restaurants

Restaurants

Chef Auguste Escoffier dies of uremia at his Monte Carlo home, Villa Fernand, February 12 at age 88.

Pan Am Clipper flights provide the first hot meals to be served in the air.

Ohio-born Chicago printing salesman Duncan Hines, 55, sends out a pamphlet listing his favorite eating places in lieu of a Christmas card and receives so many requests for copies that he goes into business leasing "Recommended by Duncan Hines" signs for as much as $20 per year. Guidebooks by Hines will be published under titles that include Good Eating and Lodging for a Night.