Banquet for Grover Cleveland in 1891 Shows How Our Dining Habits Have Changed

The food was simpler and pineapple was new.
Banquet for Grover Cleveland in 1891 Shows How Our Dining Habits Have Changed
President Grover Cleveland, (1837-1908), 24th president of the United States. Courtesy of the National Archives/Newsmakers/Getty Images/TNS
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By Daniel Neman From St. Louis Post-Dispatch

On Saturday July 25, 1891, Grover Cleveland sat down to a banquet in his honor in the town of Sandwich, Massachusetts, the oldest town on Cape Cod.