Word: menus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...food cooked by the Adams Kitchen; the Dunster Kitchen; and the Kirkland Kitchen, which serves the other Houses, is purchased by Westcott. He goes over the menus of the stewards of the three establishments, making certain that they contain sufficient Vitamin A and protein, and then contacts the wholesale dealers. If the lima beans, which might have been served in Adams House, cost too much, he substitutes another cheaper vegetable...
...Food was scarce and hard to get. The average German was nearly always hungry, if he lived on his rations. If he went to a restaurant, he found it crowded and stifling, the shuttered windows keeping out the fresh air. Pork, veal and beef seldom appeared on the menus, but there was plenty of venison, wild pig and wildfowl. Shot on estates and in forests, they would not provide an inexhaustible food supply. These dishes were expensive, but the diner had to take them or else get nothing...
...White Housekeeper: orders meals for the President (he loves game, sea food), the boys (steaks, chops), exotic visitors (an Abyssinian Coptic who ate no flesh was a problem), hires & fires servants (for economy the Roosevelts cut the Hoovers' 32 down to 23). Already she has drafted tentative menus for Their Majesties: for lunch, sweetbreads; for dinner, capon...
...public library offered an unusual exhibition by a gifted man who calls himself a "tramp printer." It will be shown later in New England, Midwest and Far West cities. Containing 768 items, the collection ranges from the classic Oxford Lectern Bible and some 400 other books to waggish menus, from paintings to a "No Trespassing" sign. The "tramp printer" is Bruce Rogers, greatest modern book designer. At 68, a trim, blue-eyed, steady-handed oldster who might pass for a waggish sailing captain, Bruce Rogers is to U. S. book-designing and printing what Frank Lloyd Wright is to architecture...
Meat prices have jumped noticeably, Westcott admitted, but because other commodities such as flour are cheaper the College has been able to organize menus on almost the same lines as in past years. Asked whether his office would seek more variety in foods during 1938-39, he said: "We have been going a good many years and have put a satisfactory lot of dishes together...