Preserving Washington's culinary heritage
Biographies, recipe books, photographs, documents and meeting minutes of the Washington State Chefs Association, ACF Chapter WA013.
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Biographies
Chefs, founders, past presidents, and honorees who shaped the association.
6 biographiesBrowseBooks
Recipe books, yearbooks, and programs — scanned page by page with transcribed recipes.
3 booksBrowsePhoto Archive
Photographs from dinners, competitions, expos, and chapter life across the decades.
5 albumsBrowseDocuments
Charters, bylaws, newsletters, and correspondence from the association's records.
0 documentsBrowseMeeting Minutes
Board, general, and annual meeting minutes — scanned and transcribed.
0 minutesBrowseExhibits
Curated stories that bring people, books, photographs, and documents together.
2 exhibitsBrowse
Through the decades
Follow the association's story era by era, and browse what the archive holds from each.
Featured
Highlights chosen by the archive's editors.
- Building the AssociationExhibit1943–1972
The Edison Kitchen
Paul Muellet, Hubert Eickman, Darrell Anderson: how one Seattle classroom trained a generation
Paul Muellet brought Hubert Eickman onto the staff of Edison Technical School in the middle of the war; Eickman took the department over when Muellet died in 1956 and ran it until a stroke stopped him in 1971. One of his students was Darrell Anderson, who assembled the archive this site is built from.
- EducatorBiography1908–1995
Hubert J. Eickman
Chef; Department Head of Culinary Arts, Edison Technical School, Seattle
A Kashubian-Wisconsin farm boy who bussed tables at thirteen and spent twenty-nine years teaching Seattle how to cook. Instructor at Edison Technical School from 1943 and head of its food and restaurant trades department from September 1956; the teacher who trained Darrell Anderson, whose archive this is.
- Recipe BookBookcirca 1982
Butter 'n Love Recipes
Marvista P.T.S.A. community cookbook, Seattle
Fundcraft community cookbook sold by the Marvista P.T.S.A. of Seattle around 1982: 298 recipes in eight sections from 81 named parents, staff and pupils of one elementary school. 48 of the recipes are credited to children, 19 of them by name and grade. Photographed and transcribed page by page.
- Founding YearsExhibit1939–2003
Rose's Highway Inn
The Highway 99 chicken house, 1939–2003
Rose Wilcox sold sandwiches to lawyers, so the lawyers bought her a restaurant. It stood on Highway 99 for sixty-four years and it sold chicken. The story of Rose's Highway Inn, told from the scrapbook its last chef kept.
- HistoryBook1939–2003
Rose's Highway Inn Scrapbook
Menus, clippings and memories of the Highway 99 chicken house
The scrapbook Darrell Anderson compiled about Rose's Highway Inn, the Highway 99 chicken house south of Seattle: menus from the 1940s to the 1960s, newspaper clippings, the staff roster, a recipe, and his family's own account of the years they lived behind the restaurant. Thirty-five pages, all transcribed.
- Recipe BookBook1976
Favorite Recipes
Washington State Chefs Association community cookbook for Culinary Expo 76
Comb-bound community cookbook issued by the Washington State Chefs Association for Culinary Expo 76 (July 10–11, 1976): 260 recipes in 17 sections, each signed by a working chef, with the association's 1976 officers, board and membership roster in the front matter.
Recently added
The latest additions to the archive.
- Building the AssociationAlbum1954–1993
Clarence A. “Jay” Culter Booklet
Box 20, WSCA Darrell Anderson Archives — 25 frames
All 25 content-bearing frames of the ThermaBind booklet Darrell Anderson photocopied out of a book belonging to Clarence and Betty Culter in December 1993 — Box 20 of the WSCA Darrell Anderson Archives — photographed leaf by leaf. Half press cuttings, half banquet and exhibit photography, and one certificate.
- ChefBiographyUndated
Clarence A. "Jay" Culter
Chef, Hungerford Hotel, Seattle; Treasurer, Pacific Northwest Chefs de Cuisine Association; proprietor, Betty and Jay's Phinney Ridge Cafe & Lounge
He came up through five cities as a bellhop and pantry cook, was certified by four state associations, and ended behind his own counter baking pies. Chef of the Hungerford Hotel through the middle 1950s and twice treasurer of the Pacific Northwest Chefs Association, he survives in twenty-five photocopied pages of a book his family kept — and in not one of them a date of birth or a date of death.
- Modern EraAlbum1963–1995
Josef “Joe” Sir Tribute Volume
Box 20 Unit U-SIR, WSCA Darrell Anderson Archives — 257 frames
All 257 surviving frames of the memorial tribute volume Darrell Anderson compiled on Josef “Joe” Sir — Unit U-SIR of Box 20 of the WSCA Darrell Anderson Archives — photographed leaf by leaf. Presented to Sir's widow on 10 July 1995 and again on 11 September; two identical copies went to the association and this is one.
- EducatorBiography5 February 1925 – 6 June 1995
Josef “Joe” Sir
Executive Chef, Rainier Golf and Country Club; Culinary Apprenticeship Instructor, 1971–1991
For twenty years he taught the classroom half of Washington's culinary apprenticeship; six of his apprentices carried his coffin. He arrived in Seattle from Czechoslovakia in the middle 1960s, already about forty, and the record of the four decades before that is a single line on a funeral card. What survives instead is what forty people who trained under him sat down and wrote nine weeks after he died.
- Founding YearsAlbum1939–2003
Rose's Highway Inn Scrapbook Pages
All 35 surviving frames of the scrapbook
Every surviving frame of the Rose's Highway Inn scrapbook, as a single grid. The same pages the book reader turns one at a time — menus, clippings, photographs and Darrell Anderson's own typescripts — laid out so the whole object can be seen at once.
- Building the AssociationAlbum1953–1968
Claude V. Sedenquist Papers
Box 20 Unit U03, WSCA Darrell Anderson Archives — 89 frames
All 89 surviving frames of the ThermaBind booklet Darrell Anderson compiled on Claude V. Sedenquist — Unit U03 of Box 20 of the WSCA Darrell Anderson Archives — photographed page by page. 44 catalogued items covering his career at Ivar's and his year as president of the association.
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