Celebrations and Holidays

Mexican-American Family Celebration, 19th Century
Menudo (tripe soaked in salt water, boiled with hominy, pepper, salt, herbs and chile), wine, tequila, brandy, dessert, coffee

Italian Festival Meal, Early 20th Century
Dried codfish, lamb, goat, eel, testicles, lungs, brains, rosolio liqueur, fig cookies, biscotti, pasta with sardines, fennel, and bread crumbs

Jewish Sabbath Meal, New York, Early 20th Century
Stuffed fish, noodle soup and meat friday evening; radish garnished with fat, cholet (ragout made of meat stewed with vegetable and prunes), noodle pudding, and stewed fruit for Saturday morning; white bread and fish for the final meal before sunset; challah at the end of each meal

Bohemian Christmas Dinner, Early 20th Century
Roasted duck or goose, morel mushroom sauce, cabbage and sauerkraut, dumplings, lentils, cookies, coffee cake, houska (braided bread with almonds, raisins and candied fruits, with powdered sugar on top)

Japanese New Year's Celebration, Early 20th Century
Mochi, buckwheat noodles with grated mountain potato root sauce, eggs, fish roe, black beans, lobster, red fish

Thanksgiving Dinner, South Carolina, Great Depression
Homemade corn liquor, blackberry and scuppernong wines, eggnog, turkey stuffed with cornbread dressing, chickens stuffed with plain white bread dressing, baked ham spiced with cloves, country sausage, liver pudding, hogshead cheese, coleslaw, celery, buttermilk biscuits, macaroni pie, canned peas, canned corn, candied sweet potatoes, ambrosia.

Greek Orthodox Church Wedding Banquet 1930s
Cold roasted lamb, roasted beef, lettuce and tomato salad, celery, stuffed ripe olives, roquefort cheese, sherry, muscatel, cake

Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Festival, 1950s
Apple butter, rivel soup, shoo-fly pie, and 'bot-boi'

'French Canadian' Thanksgiving, 1960s
Turkey stuffed with potatoes, sausage and giblets, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrot salad with green beans molded into yellow gelatine, ice cream, cake, carrot pudding