I'm all for recycling but I don't quite get the conceptual underpinning of restaurants using old or antique books--with tendency to the classics for upscale marketing?--for presenting their fare. There's a restaurant I know which uses open books for presenting appetizers -- it was a recipe book so when I was confronted by this practice, I thought,
Huh, but soon forgot about it. But more recently, William Faulkner's
GO DOWN, MOSES was used for presenting our dinner bill--see pics below. I think it's disrespectful.
Per the third photo, were we supposed to write how much we enjoyed the shrimp scampi? Poor Faulkner. Apologies for this impoverished culture.
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