September 15, 2012

Last night the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology celebrated the opening of "Ivy Style." Photos at ivy-stlye.com

Photos of the FIT Ivy Style exhibit, at The Trad

Boston College

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Boston College is to celebrate its 150th annivesary.

Harvard baseball

Irish breakfast tea

Irish Breakfast Tea
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Irish Breakfast tea is an ideal accompaniment to a morning meal. Irish Breakfast tea may be enjoyed plain or with milk, so they say. I can't imagine it without milk myself.

Charlotte au Chocolat

New book, to be published February 16, 2012: Charlotte Au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood by Charlotte Silver

Hard cover, amazon.com

Kindle edition, amazon.com

Description:

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. After dinner, in her frilly party dress, she often caught a nap under the bar until closing time. 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. Charlotte's unconventional upbringing takes its toll, and as she grows up she wishes her increasingly busy mother were more of a presence in her life. 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.

Infectious, charming, and at times wistful, Charlotte au Chocolat is a celebration of the magic of a beautiful presentation and the virtues of good manners, as well as a loving tribute to the author's mother-a woman who always showed her best face to the world.

--amazon.com

"Charlotte Silver grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before attending Bennington College in Vermont. She studied writing at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and has been published in The New York Times. She lives in New York."--amazon.com

From "Charlotte Silver remembers Cambridge restaurant UpStairs at the Pudding" by Glenn Yoder in Boston Globe:

Q. How has Cambridge’s restaurant culture changed?

A. Practically speaking, there's probably a lot of better food now. More fashionable, more sophisticated people, not just in Cambridge, but in the country. To me fashionable food is not of interest. Although I come from a rather rarified food background, and have had the privilege of eating very luscious and wonderful food all my life, and for that I am grateful, I'm not interested in eating fashionable food. I don't care about things that are trendy. In terms of Cambridge, I miss the rather scruffy, kind of old preppy particularity of Harvard Square.