May 22, 2009
New American Menu | 1883
Dinner menu. New American Hotel. Richfield Springs, New York. August 14, 1883. From the Chapman S. Root Menu Collection. Conrad N. Hilton Library, Culinary Institute of America.
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- Casey Cichowicz: And health, wealth, and happiness to those that eat them.
- Sheila Ryan: Eggs.
- Erica: Perhaps we can pick up John Waters.
- Josh Weichhand: Ugh… Yes, to all of the above. Miss you guys. Miss the time I was able to spend here. I miss...
- Sheila Ryan: In the back of my Honda Element, the moveable roadside attraction.
- Sheila Ryan: You are very good. Pray continue in this vein.
- Cooper: You are both very kind. Thank you.
- Erica Braverman: Where’s the world’s largest fork and stack of bacon?
- Casey Cichowicz: Also, I think the new Here We Go Magic album is quite good.
- Sheila Ryan: Also, it is a wonderful story, and I really want to believe it was not a contrived stunt. Damn. I want...
- Joel Bernstein: It was mostly for you.
- Sheila Ryan: Well, you just know I love that, Joel.
- Michael Grant Smith: Cooper’s entire collection of short-short stories in JMWW is a lesson of how to write...
- Sheila Ryan: It’s all in the attitude you take toward non-anecdotes — such as my not having seen the...
- Dave Vogt: I gotta work on developing stories. Sometimes I feel like I’ll never catch up.
Boiled Tongue, with Vegetables.
When I was a child, and was over at one of my aunt’s one day, she cooked tongue. Calf’s tongue. Tasted like roast beef as well as I recall. I may have been as young as 8 or thereabouts.