Lincoln ate at Delmonico’s Restaurant in New York City

[Eva Elisabeth]

Reminds me of when Lincoln ate in a NY restaurant at the occasion of the Copper Union speech. According to an accompanying friend, Mason Brayman, "Lincoln asked the waiter to translate the French menu. Even in English, the names of the dishes were unfamiliar to him; finally, when the waiter mentioned beans, Lincoln’s face brightened and he made a quick gesture. ‘Hold on there, bring me beans. I know beans .’” (From Burlingame's "A Life".)

Well, and Rousseau was a naive painter and autodidact... (I love his works...)