Existing comment:
"... huge piles of buckwheat cakes... among along the board flanked each by a cold apple-pie. The beef-steak was decidedly the favorite dish."
-- Charles Fenno Hoffman, 1835
"They gave us plentiful fare, particularly at breakfast, where veal-cutlets, sweetmeats, cheese, eggs, and ham were most liberally set before us."
-- Francis Hall, 1819
Dining Room:
Meals were served family style with little fanfare and without a fixed menu. Travelers would often eat quickly as the coaches followed strict schedules. |