A Taste of Yesterday
Classics from The Four Seasons pair up deliciously with modern wines
Alex von Bidder, managing partner of The Four Seasons, is sitting under the 20-foot-high ceiling in the Pool Room perusing the restaurant's spring menu for 1964. It's a flamboyant document, rife with now-cryptic entries such as julep of crabmeat in sweet pepperoni, crepes Finlandia and poussin Viennoise.
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