{"id":528,"date":"2011-11-07T14:12:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T19:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/?p=528"},"modified":"2011-11-07T14:28:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T19:28:13","slug":"more-about-old-menus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/2011\/11\/more-about-old-menus.html","title":{"rendered":"More About Old Menus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/2011\/11\/more-about-old-menus.html\/ny-central-wartime-menu-600px1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-529\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-529\" title=\"New York Central wartime menu, c. 1943\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/NY-Central-wartime-menu-600px1-194x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/NY-Central-wartime-menu-600px1-194x300.gif 194w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/NY-Central-wartime-menu-600px1-500x770.gif 500w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/NY-Central-wartime-menu-600px1.gif 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a>My favored outside writing-home of the moment, the cheerful Obit Magazine, just published a piece and a slideshow, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.obit-mag.com\/articles\/what-the-dead-once-ate-dead-menus\">What the Dead Once Ate<\/a>, about old menus and the stories they tell that partners last week&#8217;s Out There post called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/2011\/11\/menu-time-travel.html\">Menu Time-Travel<\/a>. Both include links to the New York Public Library&#8217;s collection of 10,000 examples of past gluttony &#8212; the library has massed 40,000 &#8212; that are definitely click-worthy.<\/p>\n<p>Do you wonder, as I do, what every faded stain once tasted like?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the captions for the Obit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.obit-mag.com\/articles\/what-the-dead-once-ate-slideshow\">slideshow<\/a> seem to have slipped away, so just in case you&#8217;re curious, here they are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1) Menu from the Hotel Oxford Restaurant, Coffee Shop, Piccadilly Circus Cocktail Lounge, San Francisco<br \/>\n2) Portion of Oxford Hotel menu<br \/>\n3) WWII cover of a New York Central railway menu. The \u201cV\u201d stands for Victory, not Veal.<br \/>\n4) Dinner menu from &#8220;Bermudian&#8221; steamer, May 12, 1910<br \/>\n5) Another San Francisco menu, this one printed as a balsa-wood postcard that Grison&#8217;s Steak &amp; Chop House would mail for free, c.1940<br \/>\n6) Menu cover for Mon Lay Won, the &#8220;Chinese Delmonico,&#8221; c.1915. Mon Lay Won was considered a &#8220;destination&#8221; Chinatown restaurant for both Chinese and non-Chinese customers.<br \/>\n7) Portion of Mon Lay Won&#8217;s bill of fare. Yellow Fish Brain is a hefty $1.50.<br \/>\n8) \u201cTwo of a Kind\u201d photo pasted on back of \u201cBermudian\u201d cruise menu<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Best not to read old menus on an empty stomach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favored outside writing-home of the moment, the cheerful Obit Magazine, just published a piece and a slideshow, What the Dead Once Ate, about old menus and the stories they tell that partners last week&#8217;s Out There post called Menu Time-Travel. Both include links to the New York Public Library&#8217;s collection of 10,000 examples of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[338,339,21,337,330,95,275],"class_list":{"0":"post-528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"tag-collections","9":"tag-ephemera","10":"tag-food","11":"tag-menus","12":"tag-new-york-public-library","13":"tag-obit-magazine","14":"tag-restaurants","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/outthere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}