The American Menu

Camp David, Maryland 2007 President George W. Bush was anxious to form a good relationship with the newly-chosen British Prime Ministe...

New York City,  1935 In her memoir This Time Together , comedienne Carol Burnett reminisces about the summer of 1959, when the musical...

New York City,  1882 Influential Americans of the Gilded Age were comforted by philosopher Herbert Spencer ’ s  ideas which adapted t...

Denver,  1881 When the Society of Colorado Pioneers gathered for its first reunion in 1881 at the Windsor Hotel in Denver, the menu ...

New York City,  1897   The Café Au Bon Goût on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 30th Street features an enormous buffet that is open 24...

Iowa, New York & Connecticut,  1886-1888 T wo corn cobs were walking along, and the first cob noticed that they were being follow...

El Paso, Texas 1883   Shortly after moving to El Paso, Texas in October 1883, J. T. Stevens sent a letter, along with this hotel men...

Lackawanna County, 1886-1890 It was startling to discover a dish called “Andersonville beans” on the menu from a Union Ex-Prisoners ...

Cincinnati,  1908  This daily menu from the Sinton Hotel in C incinnati reflects the city's exuberant mood  o n July 28, 1908, whe...

San Simeon,  1940   Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst sent to San Francisco for the good linens and china in September 19...