Waitress (1825); Food Myths at IACP conference

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WALK AND CHEW GUM AT THE SAME TIME: Apologies for the double post.  Ignore
the first post.  I waited a half an hour and saw the first post didn't go
through, so I re-posted and added to it.

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WAITRESS

   Merriam-Webster and OED have 1834 for "waitress."
   All of the earliest Newspaperarchive.com cites are from the TIMES OF
LONDON.


(WWW.NEWSPAPERARCHIVE.COM)
Times - 12/12/1825
...W one u COOK, tha other HOVSClilAf D and WAITRESS. Apply to II. Tovey.
Recent1, Armn..
London, Middlesex Monday, December 12, 1825  982 k

Times - 7/9/1827
...S CHAMBaTRHAin, Housvniaid, or WAITRESS, in town or amp; Wotoui with a
snnA..
London, Middlesex Monday, July 09, 1827  1100 k

Times - 9/30/1826
...wjrt MU o-ml apply. "_ ___ ___ ______ or WAITRESS, in a Tavern or A S
CHAMI 'Hotel..
London, Middlesex Saturday, September 30, 1826  965 k

Times - 4/25/1827
...St. _ AS CtiAMnKHMAin, Housemaid, or WAITRESS, a IjL specMhle yomin; Woman
who ron..
London, Middlesex Wednesday, April 25, 1827  1304 k

Times - 5/8/1827
...Ike business has no ob'iecllan to untlon as WAITRESS, or to assist la Ihe
bat. Direct to..
London, Middlesex Tuesday, May 08, 1827  1249 k

Times - 11/8/1827
...attended to. ANTED, a young Woman., as v T WAITRESS in a respectable
Chophouw. Nrmtneed..
London, Middlesex Thursday, November 08, 1827  983 k

Times - 5/16/1827
...10, Swallowstrect, Piccadilly. _______ A S WAITRESS in a Chophouse,
Eatinghouse, or.....Bogtn't, 84. SnowMll. S CiiAHDERifAin, or WAITRESS, in a
respectable Tavern or Hatel.ln..
London, Middlesex Wednesday, May 16, 1827  1195 k

Times - 7/31/1827
...by a rnpeeiable Woman, gt; T SIT C WAITRESS In a or EaTlnnhoysp tiMd lo
the..
London, Middlesex Tuesday, July 31, 1827  1070 k

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FOOD MYTHS

   Those interested in "food myths" might want to see this:

http://foodhistorynews.com/notebook.html
Both these follow on the heels of the International Association of Culinary
Professional's annual conference in Baltimore, where Greg Patent, Damon Fowler
and I are doing a panel on "Spotting Food History Myths." Informally, we
entitled it "It Ain't Necessarily So...." That old myth spotter Andy Smith promises
to be in the audience that day. We are going to take out the iced tea was
invented at the St. Louis Fair myth, the one about lobsters and slaves, boarders,
prisoners, apprentices, etc.; the Neiman Marcus cookie one, and maybe go
after Sally Lunn, that famous Bath baker who ran up and down the streets peddling
her famous buns (no, not those buns....).

http://www.iacp.com/events/national/4-24-04.html
_Spotting a Food Myth When You See It_
We know better than to believe that the earth is flat or that alligators
reside in New York City's sewers.  So why do we persist in believing that iced tea
was invented at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair or that Catherine de Medici
brought French food to France from Florence?


   Ah, too bad I'm not on the program!
  (See ADS-L archives for "ice tea" and "iced tea" and "Neiman Marcus.")