The American Menu

Iowa, Wisconsin & Maine 1855-1858 Menus, which are marketing tools as much as anything, are best taken with a grain of salt. It ca...

New York,  1860  Queen Victoria’s eldest son, Prince Edward, traveled through the United States on a diplomatic tour in the fall of 18...

Atlanta, Georgia 1888  Thomas Frazier was the headwaiter at many fine hotels and resorts in the late nineteenth century. Born in Charl...

New York City,  1912-1915  Reisenweber’s played a pivotal role in American popular culture during the second decade of the 20th century...

St. Paul, Minnesota  1888   In January of 1888, a group of gentlemen held a dinner at a private club in St. Paul, Minnesota to mark the...

Budapest,  1914  The departure of the steamship on September 12, 1914 was a memorable sight, as 126 American Red Cross nurses stood in...

New York City,  1866  The vault at Pfaffs where the drinkers and laughers meet to eat and drink and carouse  While on the walk immediate...

New York City,  1901  Booker T. Washington signed the cover of this menu from a dinner held in his honor at the Aldine Association, a N...

New York City, 1949  The Limited Editions Club awarded its fifth gold metal at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in November 1949. According t...

 1919-1929  “The Jazz Age is over,” declared novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1931, nine years after he coined the phrase. The prosperous era...