Hotel New Yorker "Food", New York, 1942 Sizes:A2 (420x594mm) Archival Print (Unframed) Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

the martini is celebrated in this witty image from Manson's restaurant in Chicago in 1945

the Hotel New Yorker boasted 2

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Hotel New Yorker "Food", New York, 1942 Sizes:A2 (420x594mm) Archival Print (Unframed) Louis ArmstrongWay ahead of many of its rivals with "new technology" such as conveyor belts, the Hotel New Yorker was much admired. A writer for the magazine Modern Mechanix marveled at the scene in the kitchens: "Through an open door we saw busy chefs cooking on the kitchen's thirty eight sectional gas ranges. In the bake shop was an automatic weigher, measuring out ingredients from a hopper behind two electric ovens. We ducked beneath an overhead chute of gleaming