In 1948, the College of Cook Book Knowledge was burned to the ground by zealots from a nearby French cooking school.
At first, it seemed just a matter of rival cuisines, but after some investigation, the arson squad discovered an underlying personal motive. Earlier in the year, the French ambassador to the United States had visited the College of Cook Book Knowledge, but had declined to visit Francois Manhattan's School of French Cooking. The French cooking school was run by Americans for Americans and did not interest the ambassador.
The greatest loss from the fire was the college library. Unique early American manuscript recipes, rare cook books, and a huge wealth of collected material were destroyed -- the treasure of the first and greatest library of American regional cooking.
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