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Charlotte Au Chocolat: Memories Of A Restaurant Girlhood (2012)

by Charlotte Silver(Favorite Author)

3.14 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1594488150 (ISBN13: 9781594488153)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Riverhead Hardcover

review 1: A decadent and charming slice of an unusual life. Charlotte had an unusual childhood full of foie gras, glamour, party dresses, and poverty at her mother's restaurant Upstairs at the Pudding in Boston. I love food memoirs, and the writing in this is clear and crisp. I felt for Charlotte who very rarely gets the chance to be a child in the craziness of the restaurant business in the 80s and 90s. Slightly nostalgic, full of odd characters, and totally delicious! Fans of Chocolat, A Handmade Life, and My Berlin Kitchen will eat this up (pun intended).
review 2: Charlotte Silver grew up in her family's restaurant eating things like crab vicar and smoked pheasant with Roquefort flan, and she often mentions in this memoir that she didn't have friends her own age. Sti... morell, I was shocked to discover that the author is only a few years older than I am, and that the bygone era she so wistfully describes was the 1980's. It is enjoyable and interesting to inhabit Charlotte's richly-described, elegant past, but you would swear that this was the memoir of a much older person lamenting the way things used to be. less

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