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Featured Antique — A Menu From Paris's Jazz Age

Ever wonder what fashionable Parisians were having for dinner in the 1920s? Help me find out.

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Bill Borman
Apr 28, 2025
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Among the other French food and cooking-related things I’m on the lookout for is ephemera: Paper items that were not supposed to survive much longer than their creation date. I have a growing collection of turn-of-the-century French department store catalogs, business cards and handwritten recipes and can geek out imagining what…

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