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The Essay "A Guide to American Restaurant Menus" [Oct. 2] sounded so much like the food served in dorms here that in order to obtain such accurate translations, Mr. Kanfer undoubtedly ate in my dorm. However, he left off some euphemisms for hamburger, which are: Swiss steak, onion steak, trailmaster steak, fried steak and Wisconsin cutlet (cheeseburger).
Bill Heine Iowa City
The food-service industry agrees that there is need for accuracy in menu descriptions to avoid misrepresentation. However, in your Essay "Guide to American Menus" the attempt at making it sound humorous was in poor taste. It was a disservice to the many fine restaurants in which you have enjoyed an excellent breakfast, luncheon or dinner.
Joe F. Lo Cicero, President Wisconsin Restaurant Association Milwaukee
Bravo TIME magazine! Your Essay on Menuese has shown that tasteless minds should stop trying to transform deep, honest food into abstract table structures. By the way, the same minds are at work in the restaurants of French Quebec.
Raymond P. Hebert Montreal
Your Essay on restaurant menus should be required reading for all those who complain about excessive governmental regulation. It is a poor commentary on us that Government controls are the price for honesty.
Mary C. Browning Chicago
Hang the Chairs
In Frank Rich's review of the movie Goin'South [Oct. 9], he writes that Julia Tate is "a frigid young spinster whose odd habits include hanging up chairs on wall hooks." This custom is not so odd. I was once invited into a Pennsylvania Mennonite farmhouse where the chairs were hung up on hooks. It was also a fairly common thing to do in the 19th century to make space.
Langley U. Morang Miami