In the San Francisco Bay Area, people have been eating avocado toast since at least 1885.[6][7] In 1915, the California Avocado Association described serving small squares of avocado toast as an hors d'oeuvre.[8] According to The Washington Post, it was believed that chef Bill Granger may have been the first person to put avocado toast on a modern café menu in 1993,[9] although the dish is documented in his native Australia as early as 1929.[10] In 1999, Nigel Slater published a recipe for an avocado "bruschetta" in The Guardian.