Popovers and Candlelight, livre ebook

What would you do with your last sixty dollars? If you were Patricia Murphy you'd turn it into a fortune by buying a rundown Brooklyn diner. On the cusp of the Great Depression, the diner became an overnight sensation, the first of nine popular Patricia Murphy's Candlelight Restaurants that opened over the course of four decades in New York and Florida. Popovers and Candlelight recounts how Murphy bucked Mad Men–era sexism in a male-dominated field and created remarkable dining experiences with solid American fare, a talented staff, and eye-popping décor. Dripping in diamonds, she transcended ethnic prejudices to become a socialite and built a brand that sold fragrance as well as food. Mutinous siblings, a desperate manager, and a typhoid outbreak brought it all to an operatic end, but Marcia Biederman restores Murphy and her contributions to their proper place in women's and culinary history. This book will delight readers with its rags-to-riches story and fascinating view of class, gender, ethnicity, and food culture during much of the twentieth century.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Truth or Dare
2. Patricia of Avalon
3. New Girl
4. On the Heights
5. Remodeling
6. War
7. Love
8. Schism in the Suburbs
9. The Crown Jewel

gallery of photos follows page
10. Revenge
11. Spinning to a Stop
12. Grieve. Drink. Expand.
13. Where the Yachts Are
14. Storm over the Marina
15. Manhattan Transfer
16. Desperate Measures
17. Ignominy
18. The Party’s Over
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index