Déjeuner, Château de Francs, Bègles, France 1890

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Déjeuner, Château de Francs, Bègles, France 1890This beautiful 19th century French menu shows a gentleman returning from a morning livestock market. In the front basket of the carriage are two geese and a cockerel. A fat pig brings up the rear and is being pulled along by his new owner. This 1890 lunch menu offered a substantial feast. Among the dishes steak with anchovy butter, roast ham in jelly, game pate in pastry, roast chickens, eel tartare and truffled guinea fowl. No wonder dessert was

and with a continuous two-way traffic of Stork glamorites arriving and departing

There was “a bohemian atmosphere

linking many of the important cities in the West and travelling more than three million miles a year

the SS Alferdoss

Bennie and Clovis Martin were ex-streetcar conductors who opened a hole-in-the-wall coffee stand in New Orleans' French Quarter in 1922

an outpost of the legendary Harry's New York Bar in the club was supposed to be another enticement

was once told by a guest that New York City was like a circus – so he arranged to have a circus – complete with elephants – perform in the grand ballroom

journalist and veteran gourmet

this menu dates from the early 1950s

Billy Joel played piano here for six months in 1972 and the characters from his song Piano Man are said to be based on the people he met here

and later as the Iroquois Confederacy

the hotel’s ties to organized crime continued to cause problems for The Riviera

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