(New York) Brody, Iles. The Colony: Portrait of a Restaurant and its Famous Recipes. Soviet Pictorial silver cloth

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(New York) Brody, Iles. The Colony: Portrait of a Restaurant and its Famous Recipes. Soviet Pictorial silver clothJacket. First English Edition. London: Jarrolds, [1946]. The Colony (1923 71) was founded by Ernest Cerutti, Alfred Hartmann, and Gene Cavallero, who bought an earlier Colony restaurant from their former employer. At first, it was known for its upstairs gambling club where men could meet their mistresses. After Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt discovered it, it became the fashionable haunt of New York high society. The Colony served liquor during