by apical_dendrite 10 hours ago
One massive change is that there is almost no ethnic food on these menus (unless you include French). I looked at some of the LA menus and there were zero Asian, Mexican, or Italian dishes. It's impossible to imagine today that you could look at a bunch of hotel restaurant menus in LA and not find at least some dishes that were inspired by those cultures.
If you wanted Chinese fits in the 1800s, you went to a "chop suey" shop in Chinatown.
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