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A team photograph of the Waldorf Astoria Culinary Team from 1986.

Rare Footage of the Waldorf Astoria Kitchen, Hotel, and Restaurant Workers in 1936.

The parade of waiters in this image are lined up in the service kitchen for the meals they had to deliver to over 1100 guests at the Tribute Banquet for Oscar of the Waldorf in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria hotel.

From left to right are Chefs Michael Toohey, Brian Strauss, John Branda, John Doherty, Scott Hagen
and Peter Daledda.

Black and white autographed photograph group portrait of Crosby Gaige and Oscar Tschirky, given to Oscar with an inscription: "For my friend {au coutiere (unclear)], Oscar, from Crosby Gaige".

Black and white photograph depicting Oscar Tschirky and the kitchen staff celebrating the end of Prohibition at the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel, c. December 1933.

This article discusses the history of (the then) modern cooking techniques and the development of the modern chef, who is both in part a scientist as well as an artist. Munsey's Magazine is credited with being the first mass-market magazine that was…