Restaurant Martin Menu Grocery The Franco-American Soup Company began

The Franco-American Soup Company began on Greenwich Street in New York City in 1887

Gray-green boards

but how did these little links become icons of American culture

or Danish pastry with orange and the marzipan candies of Martorana

Restaurant Martin Menu Grocery The Franco-American Soup Company beganManuscript menu on card stock embossed with an orange and yellow flower. 7x4. 5". France: Restaurant Martin, Nov. 5, 1906. A lovely manuscript menu, with wines and liqueurs written in red ink (including a Latour vintage 1880, and a Chambertin from 1892). Signatures of attendees (with various 19th c. dates) in pencil to verso. Small crease to upper right corner, else very good. JULY 2019