Mayflower Donuts Front Cover, San Francisco and New York World's Fairs, 1939

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Mayflower Donuts Front Cover, San Francisco and New York World's Fairs, 1939Doughnuts and coffee are one of the world's great food pairings and this menu is from the famous Mayflower Donuts chain of shops. Established in New York in 1931 by Adolph Levitt, an immigrant from Russia, he shortened the name to donut and developed the first automatic doughnut making machine. Eventually there was a chain of 18 Mayflower Donuts shops across the country. Levitt printed the famous jingle on Mayflower donuts boxes, showing two men

burlesque central in New Orleans in the 1940s

In the years that followed Eddie traveled round the world and mixed drinks for royalty and film stars before coming ashore in 1934 and taking up as the head bar-tender at the Berkeley Hotel

one smiling at a fat doughnut with a small hole and the other frowning at a thin doughnut with a large hole:

Staff drew water from the property's own well so guests did not have to drink from the city's then questionable public water supply

Chef Roggio served black bear

fried oysters and chops

" The rugby football club's annual ball was a real feast

Originally

from an unrecorded banquet at Delmonico's

The menu is one of several from this grand British hotel

must have thought that licensing the Esquire name to a men only restaurant would give the brand some cache

Each product is accompanied by a copy of the interior menu where available

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