Hello Tim,
Can you please update your code as per following:
var myModel = {
name: item,
category: 'Entree',
imagepath: 'garden-salad.jpg'
};
var view = new MenuItemDetails( { model : myModel });
for render function you can use like
render: function () {
var markup = '<div>' +
'<h1>' + this.model.name + '</h1>' +
'<p>' + this.model.category + '</p>' +
'<img src="photos/' + this.model.imagepath + '" class="img-polaroid" />' +
'</div>';
this.$el.html(markup);
return this;
}