| Description |
258 pages ; 19 cm |
| Summary |
Recounts the author's childhood in her mother's Harvard Square restaurant at the side of a rotating cast of eccentric staff members and her indomitable mother, describing how she grew into an understanding of the sacrifices her mother made to keep the family and restaurant afloat. |
| Contents |
Prologue -- Hasty pudding -- Front room vs. kitchen -- Skinned pears & dead ducks -- Anything can absorb champagne -- The lavender blonde -- Not in front of the customers -- Cerise delight -- Food opportunities -- The dead parents club -- Cabaret night -- Dover sole -- On lemon ice -- Cabana boys -- The last of the Shirley Temples. |
| Subject |
Upstairs at the Pudding (Cambridge, Mass.)
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Silver, Charlotte.
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Cambridge (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
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| ISBN |
9781594488153 |
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1594488150 |
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