Meals made for the famous

Mobster Crazy Joe Gallo was shot and killed on April 7, 1972, at Umberto’s Clam House. The grub he didn’t live to digest included:
Boiled shrimp and scungilli salad
Italian bread with butter

Barack Obama and John McCain supped together at the Waldorf-Astoria at the Alfred E. Smith dinner in October 2008. On the menu:
Salad of poached lobster tail, fines herbes sauce
Vol-au-vent with seasonal vegetables, mushroom and basil cream, sautéed asparagus, rosemary sauce
Chocolate raspberry cadeau

In When Harry Met Sally’s oft-quoted scene at Katz’s Delicatessen, Sally ate:
Turkey on rye
Coleslaw
Pickle

Superstar toques Thomas Keller and his former French Laundry employee Grant Achatz teamed up to create a 20-course Mentor Protégé Dinner at Per Se on November 11, 2008. Tickets cost $1,500. Dishes included:
Japanese sea urchin “velouté” with Meyer lemon
Lamb with fennel, Pernod and coffee-scented air
Sweet potato with bourbon, brown sugar and burning cinnamon

Charles Dickens celebrated his second visit to New York in 1867 with this dinner in his honor at Delmonico’s:
Oysters in their shell, crème d’asperges à la Dumas, salmon à la Victoria, bass a l’Italienne, potatoes Nelson