Charlotte Au Chocolat

Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood

Charlotte Silver

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Riverhead Books,U.S.
05 February 2013

Autobiography: general; Biography: literary; Diaries, letters & journals

Like Eloise growing up in the Plaza Hotel, Charlotte Silver grew up in her mother's restaurant. Located in Harvard Square, Upstairs at the Pudding was a confection of pink linen tablecloths and twinkling chandeliers, a decadent backdrop for childhood. Over dinners of foie gras and Dover sole, always served with a Shirley Temple, Charlotte kept company with a rotating cast of eccentric staff members. Her one constant was her glamorous, indomitable mother, nicknamed ""Patton in Pumps,"" a wasp-waisted woman in cocktail dress and stilettos who shouldered the burden of raising a family and running a kitchen. But when the restaurant-forever teetering on the brink of financial collapse-looks as if it may finally be closing, Charlotte comes to realize the sacrifices her mother has made to keep the family and restaurant afloat and gains a new appreciation of the world her mother has built.

Like Eloise growing up in the Plaza Hotel, Charlotte Silver grew up in her mother's restaurant. Located in Harvard Square, Upstairs at the Pudding was a confection of pink linen tablecloths and twinkling chandeliers, a decadent backdrop for childhood. Over dinners of foie gras and Dover sole, always served with a Shirley Temple, Charlotte kept company with a rotating cast of eccentric staff members. Her one constant was her glamorous, indomitable mother, nicknamed ""Patton in Pumps,"" a wasp-waisted woman in cocktail dress and stilettos who shouldered the burden of raising a family and running a kitchen. But when the restaurant-forever teetering on the brink of financial collapse-looks as if it may finally be closing, Charlotte comes to realize the sacrifices her mother has made to keep the family and restaurant afloat and gains a new appreciation of the world her mother has built.

By: Charlotte Silver
Imprint: Riverhead Books,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 177mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 186g
ISBN: 9781594486500
ISBN 10: 1594486506
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 05 February 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Charlotte Silvergrew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before attending Bennington College in Vermont. She studied writing at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and has been published inThe New York Times. She lives in New York and Boston.

Reviews for Charlotte Au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood

Charlotte au Chocolat is simply exquisite. Savor it. Devour it. Silver has taken a cool-eyed, unsentimental look at her unique and strange childhood and made lavish, glorious art of it. --Lily King, author of Father of the Rain <br><br> Charlotte Silver has written a love song to a remarkable restaurant and a vanished world. I devoured these pages with the same enthusiasm as the author brings to pheasant's legs and steak tartare on toast. --Margot Livesey, author of Eva Moves the Furniture<br> <br> Reading Charlotte au Chocolat is like sitting down to a sumptuous, many-coursed dinner--and then, after taking your last bite of Queen Mother's cake, having the pleasure of lingering in the kitchen, where a cast of vivid characters conjures culinary magic until closing time. A feast of a book! --Allison Hoover Bartlett, author of The Man Who Loved Books Too Much