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Paquebot Tonkin, Auguste Vimar 1899The Paquebot Tonkin was part of the French Messageries Maritimes fleet. Launched in 1898 from the yards of La Ciotat, the Tonkin initially worked the Marseille Saigon Yokohama route, with space for 185 first class passengers, 86 second class and 77 third class. This menu, from February 1899, would be from one of her earliest voyages. The Tonkin took her name from the French term for northern Vietnam, which was occupied by the French at the time.

This is a wonderfully detailed map of the Kittery harbor and surrounding area

Coffee Dan’s was one of the most popular nightclubs in the world during the Prohibition era when alcohol could not be served publicly

the main boulevard that runs along the famous beach-front in Nice

naming it after his home city on China's northeast coast

At the Raleigh Hotel in Washington DC there were Wheatless Wednesdays

The New York sky line must have seemed like a mirage after days at sea

the original assurance of the committee being “that it would be better that ten unobjectionable men should be excluded than one terrible bore should be admitted”

190 Rue Jean Jaures in the 19th arrondissement in northeastern Paris still has the Hotel Agorno at that address and is next to one of the oldest steak houses in the city – Au Boeuf Couronné

He died the following day

According to 1929 newspaper reports

the dish was first made after Napoleon defeated the Austrian army at the Battle of Marengo at Marengo south of Turin in 1800

Created by the celebrated artist and author Andrew Loomis*

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