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    Amelia Earhart's Travel Menu Relied On Three Rules And People's Generosity

    The question American often women asked Earhart was what she ate during her long flights. She said she used three rules for her in-flight menu. Once on the ground, she relied on people's generosity.
    by Nina Martyris Jul 08, 2017 5 minutes
    Amelia Earhart eating dinner at the Cleveland hotel. Her in-flight menu however, was usually simple, often consisting of tomato juice and a hard-boiled egg.

    A recently discovered photograph that some believe shows Amelia Earhart alive and well on an atoll in the Marshall Islands has exhumed the never really buried mystery about the pioneering aviator's disappearance after her Lockhart Electra vanished in the south Pacific on July 2, 1937.

    But while feverish speculation of how she died has long dominated her story, breeding ghoulish theories including that her body was eaten by giant coconut crabs, it might be more enlightening to look at what she liked to eat on those long 15-hour solo flights across the oceans.

    It was a topic of keen interest to American women at the time.

    "A question I'm asked frequently concerns what a pilot eats on long flights," Earhart said in a she gave between 1935 and 1937

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