Charlotte au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood - Hardcover

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"Child of artist-restauranteurs, Silver recalls a girlhood filled with pink linens, candied violets, and constant threat of financial ruin. But it's her ode to her quirky, dazzling mom that makes the dish."--"Good Housekeeping"
""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"
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"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 "
"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"
"Bright and vivacious."--"USA Today"

"Child of artist-restauranteurs, Silver recalls a girlhood filled with pink linens, candied violets, and constant threat of financial ruin. But it's her ode to her quirky, dazzling mom that makes the dish."--"Good Housekeeping"
""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"

"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
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"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 "

""Charlotte au Chocolat "charms."--"The New York Times Book Review ""Every paragraph here is a confection of wit, color, texture, and taste, all overlaid with a dusting of melancholy for a lost restaurant, a lost time, a childhood that set Charlotte Silver apart and inspired her to write this utterly captivating memoir."--"The Huffington Post ""Silver illustrates the details of her upbringing with luminous clarity . . . these poignant moments are as exact as poetry."--"The Boston Globe" "Bright and vivacious."--"USA Today"
"Child of artist-restauranteurs, Silver recalls a girlhood filled with pink linens, candied violets, and constant threat of financial ruin. But it's her ode to her quirky, dazzling mom that makes the dish."--"Good Housekeeping "