Menu Monday: As advertised in the Princeton Press, George A. Dohm opened an ice cream saloon across from the college (now named Princeton University) on May 17, 1873. Dohm was already a well-established bakery owner at the time, having operated his Bread and Fancy Cake Bakery since 1868. The advertised "kisses" are meringues, while "macaronies" likely refers to macaroons.
According to a member of the Class of 1894, Dohm's was a popular hangout for students for decades, with the business expansion of the Dohm family soon including a restaurant, too:
There was one long table in the rear room where the students gathered, and every year a new top was placed on it, well fastened down. During the year the Seniors, sitting around this table, would carve their names on the top, cutting them in very deep, so that by the end of the year it represented a fair autograph album of the class. After Commencement this top was taken off, varnished, and fastened permanently on the ceiling or wall of the room.
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