The Colony: Portrait Of A Restaurant- And Its Famous Recipes

BRODY, Iles [296] pp. Greenberg: Publisher 1945 This is copy number 365 of a special De Luxe edition limited to 750 copies 9 1/2" x 6 1/2" There are many amusing bits of social history in the first section of this book about one of New York s most missed restaurants. In one such passage, the Colony s Socialist tendencies are exposed waiters took diners bills to proprietor Gene Cavallero who would increase or decrease the total based upon his estimation of their wealth. The second section of the book contains the recipes for which the restaurant was known. The Colony is one of the few places in New York where I finish my vegetables; and more often than not, at other places I don t even begin them. --Iles Brody.