This food was served without utensils at riotous, all-male banquets named for it, which were used for political fundraising in mid-19th-century New York. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this food, a thick-cut preparation of which was invented at America’s “first fine dining restaurant,” Delmonico’s.
ANSWER: beefsteak [prompt on beef or red meat]
[10m] “Beefsteak” and “sherry” were the only words this man knew upon his arrival in America. Margarethe, the wife of this Forty-Eighter and accused carpetbagger, opened the first kindergarten in the US.
ANSWER: Carl Schurz
[10h] The popularizer of this disease, George Miller Beard, thought that a steak-based diet could help “brain workers” avoid it. In the late 19th century, diagnoses of this mental illness were so common that William James dubbed it “Americanitis.”
ANSWER: neurasthenia
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