Carole's Country Cupboard

‘In Pursuit of Flavor’ Makes Food Taste the Way It’s Supposed to | Eater

"A tiny, opulent Upper East Side restaurant where she became cook and part-owner in 1949 after two men who had tasted her cooking at Communist Party potlucks helped found it. There was no menu—patrons ate whatever she chose—and it rapidly became a hangout for visiting celebrities and homesick Southerners; anecdotes include a famous writer barging into the kitchen to demand biscuits and a prominent food critic raving about the roast chicken and chocolate soufflé while the cook watched guests' reactions from the pass. She left after a few years, possibly because her husband found the uptown cooking too decadent." - Aimee Levitt