Word: menus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...previously mentioned. The only ornaments on the walls were ideographs representing the famous Inca sport of Rolo. From this we gathered that the building had been a dining-hall for athletes. In the kitchen were found the remains of elaborate ovens, and neatly tabulated parchment list of food. These menus showed that the service here was of the best, and that the food was fit for the palates of royalty. In fact it seems to have been the custom for the athletes to chew on thongs of leather just before a contest, and to eat quantities of raw meat after...
...dining halls in the basements of the sleeping quarters which I described in an earlier letter. These quarters, as I said, were of an unbelievably crude sort, and the food corresponded. Weeds, volcanic fish, and a conclusion of wild rice were the chief articles noted in their parchment menus. Oddly enough, we have one piece of concrete evidence--a petrified cake, apparently as fresh as on the day it was served. Cordially yours, J. BEATH-DUNCAN, With the University of Nueva Barcelona Peruvian Expedition, Near Machu Picchu, Peru, January...
...Exchange Professor from France to the University, is giving a lecture at the Fogg Art Museum at 4.30 o'clock today. This lecture is one of a series which is being delivered by the professor, in French, on Wednesday afternoons. His subject this afternoon will be "Le costume, les menus usages sociaux, et la vie quotidienne on Orient...