Joe Special (1965); Rivel (1862)

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JOE SPECIAL

   Just to follow up on the "Joe Special" seen in ROADFOOD (2002).


SAN FRANCISCO FIREHOURSE FAVORITES
Indianapolis: Boobs-Merrill Co., Inc.
1965

Pg. 127:
GAZONK EGGPLANT
(Gazonk seems to be anything that is undefined.)

Pg. 153:
In San Francisco, Italian restaurants with Italian chefs almost invariably have a "special" of spinach and eggs and hamburger--and the special takes the name of the restaurant.  Probably Joe's was first: Supposedly, for lack of enough ground beef to make a "hamburger on the French (roll)," for some closing-hour customer, the chef composed Joe's special--of the things on hand.  George Dwyer titles his special to honor another Italian restaurant; he usually makes it at the firehouse at the appropriate after-midnight hour.
(...)
BRUNO'S SPECIAL (...)

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RIVEL

   I have no idea about the next DARE.  Anybody?
   From the database NORTH AMERICAN WOMEN'S LETTERS AND DIARIES, and:

Cormany, Rachel Bowman, 1836-1899, _Diary of Rachel Bowman Cormany, January, 1862_, in _Cormany Diaries: A Northern Family in the Civil War_....1982.


Pg. 150:
The girls (Susie and Lizzie) breakfasted with us.  We had quite a jolly time eating rivel soup, baked pies for them.

NOTE 17:
Rivel, or rivvel, was a basic milk and flower soup.  Ruth Hutchinson, _The New Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book_ (New York, 1958), p. 1.