author
W. S. Goodnaw
Best known today for a richly detailed book about Chicago's Congress Hotel, this little-documented writer helped preserve a snapshot of early 20th-century hotel culture, dining, and culinary storytelling.
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Congress Hotel, Home of a Thousand Homes Rare and Piquant Dishes of Historic Interest
by Irving S. Paull, W. S. Goodnaw
About the author
W. S. Goodnaw is credited as co-author, with Irving S. Paull, of Congress Hotel, Home of a Thousand Homes: Rare and Piquant Dishes of Historic Interest. The book, now available through Project Gutenberg, presents the Congress Hotel in Chicago through a mix of promotional history, recipes, and stories about notable dishes.
Reliable biographical information about Goodnaw appears to be scarce. Based on the surviving record that is easy to confirm, Goodnaw is remembered primarily through this collaboration rather than through a widely documented public life.
That makes the work itself the main legacy: a lively period piece that captures the style, hospitality, and culinary ambitions associated with a famous American hotel in the early 1900s.