H. Schwarzenbach’s Zurich cookbook

H. Schwarzenbach, a Zurich institution, has traded in coffee, tea, spices and delicacies since 1864. The family firm marked its anniversary with a book that tells its history as a cookbook. We researched the historical images of old Zurich for it.

Coffee, tea and spices in Zurich

Heinrich Schwarzenbach I founded the delicatessen in Zurich’s Oberdorf in 1864, and the Schwarzenbach family still runs it on Münstergasse, now in the fifth generation.

For its 150th anniversary, the family commissioned a book. Rather than a straight company history, it became a cookbook that weaves Zurich’s food history together with the story of the house of Schwarzenbach. Nine Zurich chefs and a chocolatier present recipes built on traditional ingredients from the Schwarzenbach range.

We found the historical images of the company’s past, images that bring the Zurich of those years back into view.

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