"The poetry of food.  Food is the world's only common language."  From The Improvement Era, 1967.

From The Most Wonderful House in the World by Mary Haviland, 1921.

From Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1914.

Pleasureville is only one second away.  From St. Nicholas, 1914.

Eating clubs.  From Swarthmore's 1918 yearbook.

From Together, 1966.

What a lie that we have equal work and play time.  The typical 8 to 5 workday is 9 hours, and that doesn't include time to get ready or commute.  Nor does it acknowledge that some (many) people need more than 8 hours of sleep.  It's all an ugly lie.  Also, if every day is a giant pie, no wonder so many folks stuggle with weight management.  From The Business of Life by A. B. ZuTavern and A. E. Bullock and illustrated by Leo Thiele, 1936.

Finally, a headline we can believe.  "Foods are from around the world."  From Stoutiana, 1916.

"Sue finds beauty in Jello; its malleability and transparency fascinate her."  From Lambuth's 1964 yearbook.

Here's an "actual reproduction" of the skyscraper sandwich.

Seventy-four years before the Food Pyramid, there was the Pyramid of Fruit (technically a star yet called a pyramid because why not, apparently) and the Pyramid of Flowers (more of a concave octagon, but we like it). From The Practical Hotel Steward by John Tellman, 1900.