Like lovers' kisses, she biteth — she is a pleasure bordering on pain from the fierceness and insanity of her relish.
Charles Lamb, 1822 — On the rapture of the pineapple. In eighteenth-century Britain, a pineapple was costly enough that hostesses sometimes rented one for the evening rather than eat it.
History
A history of menus is a menu of history
A menu describes what a restaurant serves—but a menu also describes who is being served.