[Sca-cooks] brunch?

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

Depends very much what you call brunch. Mencken claims it was first  
mentioned around 1900, though I see no reference that far back:
 
https://books.google.com/books?id=n37tIO4KhU8C&lpg=PA517&dq=brunch&pg=PA517#
v=onepage&q&f=false
 
Whereas this writer from 1950 says the word was then relatively new:
https://books.google.com/books?id=y20vAAAAYAAJ&q=brunch&dq=brunch&hl=en&sa=X
&ei=-DSOVYXtNYvSsAXAtIHgAg&ved=0COoCEOgBMEE4ZA
 
Otherwise, the fact that dejeuner, which used to mean breakfast in French,  
now means lunch, has a great deal to do with the dejeuner a la fourchette  
("breakfast with a fork") which first appeared around the end of the 
eighteenth  century. It was so called because it was copious enough to require the 
full set  of utensils to eat it with. It also tended to be eaten later and 
later, so that  it effectively became lunch.
 
So arguably the French invented the brunch, but not bothering to take  
credit for it, simply converted it into lunch, leaving the simple bread with a  
hot drink to survive as the "little breakfast" (le petit dejeuner), while 
the  regular dejeuner changed its meaning. (I've actually written a very 
serious  academic paper on much of this:
 
https://books.google.com/books?id=NAEZBjQwXBYC&lpg=PR12&dq=consumption%20in%
20the%20long%20nineteenth&pg=PA191#v=onepage&q&f=false

)
 
Jim  Chevallier

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In a message dated 6/26/2015 10:16:56 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
agora158 at gmail.com writes:

Ppl I  need some historial refences to the brunch. . Do anyone know when  it
started?