Restaurant Culture
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-10-2016
Department
History
School
Humanities
Abstract
During an economic depression in 1893, George Roeth, an unemployed stonecutter, drunkenly “Curse the rich! Curse them now and for all time!” and fired at the windows of Delmonico’s, the most fashionable restaurant in New York. He then marched into the dining room waving his pistol. At his arraignment, before the judge committed him to Bellevue Hospital for evaluation, Roeth, “agitated and trembling,” told the judge: “I had the dining room all to myself for a while, and I certainly had more of Delmonico’s than I ever expected to have again. I never intended to kill anyone.”
Publication Title
The Routledge History of American Foodways
First Page
214
Last Page
232
Recommended Citation
Haley, A.
(2016). Restaurant Culture. The Routledge History of American Foodways, 214-232.
Available at: https://aquila.usm.edu/fac_pubs/19545
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