Blue Breakfast Autocrat, Hotel New Yorker, New York, 1950s Gay The artist may well have

The artist may well have drawn the menu cover in exchange for being allowed to eat in the restaurant

the French word for firemen

It operated from the 1930s through to the late 1990s in the La Villette area of Paris

big bands performed and The Rat Pack made appearances here

make great cakes and desserts

Blue Breakfast Autocrat, Hotel New Yorker, New York, 1950s Gay The artist may well haveThe Autocrat of the Breakfast Table is a collection of essays written by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1857 and 1858. They take the form of a one sided dialogue between the author and other residents of a New England Boarding House. This lovely literary nod by the 2,500 room Hotel New Yorker for its breakfast menu shows that the management knew their clientele very well indeed. The 1940s and 1950s saw