Decades before food blogs, Chowhound, & Lucky Peach, there was the monthly Bohemian Life newsletter. Published by L.A.’s Bohemian Distributing Company– purveyors of fine wines, spirits, ales, and beers– it launched with this first issue in September 1939. Its coverage of L.A. gourmet eats and drinks (penned by Touring Topics editor Phil Hanna under the goofy Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin nom de plume “Savarin St. Sure”) quickly made it the essential reading material of the city’s rising epicurean class.
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