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Black and white photograph of William Waldorf Astor, from <i>Notable New Yorkers, 1896-1899</i>. Image retrieved from New York Times, 2009.

National Culinary Review spoke with Waldorf Chef David Garcelon about cooking in a hotel kitchen. Chef Garcelon addressed special challenges facing a luxury hotel (including volume and diversity of special requests), compared his kitchen to an…

Hazel Davis, Director of Housekeeping at The Waldorf=Astoria Hotel, explained “How to Remove Wax from a Tablecloth” to 3,863,710 readers in the November 2011 issue of Woman’s Day. This housekeeping tip was also posted on the…

Black and white photograph depicting Waldorf wait staff enjoying what was to be the world’s tallest hotel. The first steel grillage was hoisted into position on the site of the Park Avenue Waldorf-Astoria in 1930.

Black and white photograph depicting Eugene Scanlan, Gene Shalit, and Towers staff preparing to host The Today Show in the Presidential Suite in 1978. Mr. Shalit shared a "State Dinner" with NBC officials before spending the night in the legendary…

The Waldorf=Astoria’s appointment of Chef David Garcelon to Director of Culinary was featured in the “On The Move” section of the January/February 2012 issue of Hotel F&B (which had a circulation of 58,858 in February 2012).…

Black and white photograph depicting Oscar Tschirky putting the finishing touches on his Swiss Chalet in 1938. This model won a special Grand Prize in the three-day-long 3rd Annual Arts and Crafts Exhibition for Waldorf=Astoria employees. Born in…

Black and white photograph depicting Conrad N. Hilton (founder and chairman of the board of Hilton Hotels Corporation) and his wife (center) as they are greeted by the executive chef of the Waldorf=Astoria, Arno Schmidt (left). Frank Wangeman…