A Century of Dining Out - The American Story in Menus, 18...
Voigt, Henry / Freedman, Paul![A Century of Dining Out - The American Story in Menus, 1841-1941](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/431/43111730/CHSBZCOP0343111730.jpg)
Menus aid our cultural memory. They provide unwitting historical evidence not only of what people were eating but of how they spent their leisure time, and what they valued. A Century of Dining Out offers a fascinating tour of American culture, using menus as a road map. As Henry Voigt explains, menus came into use with the nineteenth-century expansion of hotels and restaurants in the United States, a time when service áa la russe serving dish...