| Show C nac ca ca S American Hotels First to Use Bills of Fare No of ot fare tare was necessary sary when hn Jacob made the tle mess of ot pottage for tor It Laau Ksau It was a one course meal lackIng lacking lack lack- In Ing even eten the simplest refinements Neither did the early follow tollow a menu card In their choice of ot food tood although the word menu Itself Is derived from the Latin Weaning minute detail From this the deduction follows that menu Is used 1 to denote the particulars of ot the different courses cours's of ot a meal Indeed the term was wall used among the Romans but the practice of ot en both guest ono and traveler In the domus precluded pr the need for tor fora tora a written card Kven en In the prevalence of ot Inns and taverns In Thirteenth Fourteenth anti Fifteenth century England and the American AI taverns of ot the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth centuries failed to 10 produce the menu card For still there was little need nd for tor It with all the travelers seated at one great table and the Innkeepers Innkeepers' wife serving victuals vict of ot her own choice The frivolous elegant ellgant styles of at th the second empire In to France and the openIng openIng open open- Ing lag of at the first American hotels about the middle of ot the Nineteenth century brought the bill of ot fare The United States hotel of ot Philadelphia National hotel of ot Norfolk Va VII and the New York hotel of New York were the last word In fashion about IBM ISSO with menus of ot long narrow narro slips of poor paper never cardboard and the names of at the dishes written In under print printed Ill I'll headings |
