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The saga of Alice’s restaurants
A 1965 Thanksgiving dinner at the former church where Alice Brock and her husband Ray lived inspired Arlo Guthrie’s ballad of his arrest and subsequent draft board rejection for illegally disposing of… more →
Restaurant-ing through history
TimeOut Tel Aviv Restaurant Awards - Part 1
isragirl wrote 12 months ago: Best places to eat and drink according to TimeOut TLV A couple of weeks TimeOut Tel Aviv published i … more →
The saga of Alice’s restaurants
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victualling wrote 1 year ago: A 1965 Thanksgiving dinner at the former church where Alice Brock and her husband Ray lived inspired … more →
Famous in its day: Maillard’s
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victualling wrote 1 year ago: Henri Maillard came to New York City from France in the 1840s bringing with him a bit of Paris repre … more →
Bar-B-Q, barbecue, barbeque
victualling wrote 1 year ago: Through most of American history the principal reason for barbecues was political campaigning. These … more →
Basic fare: hamburgers
victualling wrote 1 year ago: The hamburger sandwich got its start in the 1890s, probably in venues such as the night lunch wagons … more →
Mary Elizabeth’s, a New York institution
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victualling wrote 1 year ago: Mary Elizabeth Evans, for whom the landmark tea room was named, began her career in 1900 at age 15 a … more →
Fast food: one-arm joints
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victualling wrote 1 year ago: The wooden one-arm chair was a characteristic feature of the “quick lunch” type of eating place whic … more →
Taste of a decade: restaurants, 1800-1810
victualling wrote 1 year ago: The American population is settled mainly along the Eastern seaboard. The largest city, New York, wi … more →
When ladies lunched: Schrafft’s
victualling wrote 1 year ago: Schrafft’s began as a candy manufacturer in Boston but over time morphed into a well-known restauran … more →
Taste of a decade: 1960s restaurants
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victualling wrote 1 year ago: Americans grew wealthier, traveled more, and demanded more exotic cuisine. Yet there were few traine … more →
Basic fare: fried chicken
victualling wrote 1 year ago: Actually chicken, however it was prepared, was not so basic until well into the 20th century. Only t … more →
Eating kosher
victualling wrote 1 year ago: It is impossible to say when the first kosher restaurant appeared in the United States. Jews were am … more →
Early vegetarian restaurants
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victualling wrote 1 year ago: As early as the 1830s in the U.S. the Graham Journal of Health and Longevity espoused a regimen call … more →
Fried chicken blues
victualling wrote 1 year ago: The 1960s were a boom decade for marrying fast food to franchise businesses christened with celebrit … more →
Basic fare: toast
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victualling wrote 1 year ago: Toast wasn’t really new on restaurant menus around 1914 but it was beginning to enjoy a bigger vogue … more →
Department store restaurants
victualling wrote 1 year ago: In small cities – and some large ones too – restaurants in department stores were frequently the bes … more →
Rewriting restaurant history
victualling wrote 1 year ago: In this 1965 guide to places to eat in Colorado, the following notice appeared for the tiny town of … more →
Basic fare: ham sandwiches
victualling wrote 1 year ago: Because cured ham keeps for months at room temperature, it was always on hand in colonial and early … more →
