The Signal — 2026-06-28 breakpoint #3
Time for News From Nowhere. Today: a collection of 5,000 menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection, spanning 1880 to 1920. That's 40 years of what people ate, digitized and turned into a data visualization by the Pudding. You can see the rise of the hamburger, the disappearance of mock turtle soup, and the curious case of 'Welsh Rarebit' being spelled six different ways. It's a culinary time capsule. And it's free. Go look at what a gilded age banquet actually looked like. You'll never complain about your Thanksgiving dinner again.