Cheese - detail from Thanksgiving Dinner Boston 1901

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Cheese - detail from Thanksgiving Dinner Boston 1901The perfect gift for a cheese lover, this charming verse and illustration showing mice and men feasting on blocks of cheese is taken from a 1901 Thanksgiving menu in Boston, Massachusetts. Created for a dinner given by the New England Rubber Clubbe, the entire menu is superbly illustrated, course by course. At the top of the menu is the phrase Lett Goode Digestion Waite on Appetyte. A copy of the full menu comes with the cheese print. The artist is

opened in 1923

of course is the menu price list

"Last night

Waiter – bring me a very large cocktail

Drawn for tourists

Six or seven course lunches and dinners were served to passengers in First Class

iron girders weighing two tons each

which was top-of-the-line at the time

A rebus is a device dating back to the middle ages that uses pictures to represent words or parts of words

Courtesy The Culinary Institute of America

The phrase became so popular that Franklin D Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover

Bruccoli’s book