The Gilded Gentleman Presents: Invisible Magicians and Golden Plates
The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast
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Gilded Age Dinners
Diners were rarely there to simply enjoy the food. A big dinner with a hired chef and two borrowed footmen was a different affair. Edith wharton tells us that well off young couples in new york should do a good deal of informal entertaining. And a welland married to an archer, was doubly pledged to the tradition.
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