With the post-finals slow down already begun, I had the chance this afternoon to spend some time just poking around on the shelves. In a box labeled “Ad Hoc Committees” I discovered a cache of papers from the previously unknown to me “Committee on Food Service.” The most compelling file in this group contained menus from the 1980s. Here we have breakfast, lunch and dinner during the week before Christmas break, 1983:
Just for fun, here are the meal plans on offer at the time:
Bonus: The weather here has been very strange all week. There’s been some sort of miasma hanging over us–grey, cloudy and clammy, almost drippy, with temperatures that were neither warm nor cold. Today it got colder but the sun finally came out. It was wonderful.
