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Back in 1899, members of the Brooklyn Bicycle Club celebrated the club’s 20th anniversary with a fancy dinner. One reader, unsurprised by at least one of the elaborate menu‘s seven courses, shared an interesting fact about oysters in New York. Read on.

Comment of the Day

Not too surprised to see les huitres en coquille. New York harbor at one point contained close to half the world’s oysters, as I learned at the Brooklyn Museum Coney Island happy hour event last week

— adcbk in Celery and Glacé Fantaisie: What Fancy Brooklyn Cyclists Ate in 1899

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