#menumonday

Menu Monday: If you're planning on serving a burger and fries to someone this summer, maybe you'll be inspired by this February 6, 1953 ad in the Daily Princetonian. Why call it just a burger when it can be a "grilled Hamburg sandwich?" Why fries when you can have "French fried potatoes"? It's all in the presentation.

Renwick's Restaurant was a fixture in Princeton for 87 years, closing in 1970.

With so much information available to us and everyone claiming to be right how do we determine what “eating healthy” actually means? Healthy for everyone can be very different dependant on a vareity of things (i.e. your lifestyle, prefrences, activity level, etc.) While there are a few cardal rules to being healthy ultimatly no one can tell you what YOUR health looks like. However, if it helps get you started I do have a few suggestions that may get you on the right track.

Drink water.

Eat your vegetables.

limit your sugars. 

Try to avoid processed foods.

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.

Menu Monday: We found this dinner menu for the Princeton Class of 1876's reunion supper in 1877 in one of the class members' scrapbooks. Would you be having the boiled mutton with caper sauce, or boned turkey in ascot jelly?

Scrapbook Collection (AC026), Box 27

Menu Monday: We found this in a scrapbook kept by Princeton alum John C. Denman Matthews, Class of 1879. From this, we might guess that the dinner was held in 1885, rather than for the Class of 1885, but it's also possible a member of the Class of 1879 was invited to a Class of 1885 dinner. Aside from the bird, this menu appears to be identical to another we've shared, kept in the scrapbook of a member of the Class of 1885. (That one has a rabbit instead.)

Scrapbook Collection (AC026), Box 71

Menu Monday: Princeton University's Ivy Club annual dinner, June 5, 1903.

Scrapbook Collection (AC026), Box 245

Menu Monday: Alumni of St. Paul's School in New Hampshire had a St. Paul's Club at Princeton University. In 1904, they had a dinner at "Upper Whyte's," most likely a reference to John Reed Whyte's home (Mrs. Whyte offered space to cater student meals there).

Scrapbook Collection (AC026), Box 245

Menu Monday: Princeton Class of 1886's first reunion dinner, June 20, 1887. We believe "Old Carl's," where this dinner was held, was Carl Hellerman's restaurant, which stood across Nassau Street from the College Library (Chancellor Green Hall), in his hotel, Princeton House.

Although this was their "first reunion," it was likely not their first post-graduation dinner. In December 1886, a group of classmates decided to plan a dinner in New York. Typically, such dinners cost $2.50 each to attend, or about $86 today.