Deb Chachra on Nostr: TIL: if you were a guest at the Parker House Hotel in 1912 or 1913 and ordered the ...
TIL: if you were a guest at the Parker House Hotel in 1912 or 1913 and ordered the dessert that originated there and which the hotel remains famous for, your Boston Cream Pie may have been made by…
Ho Chi Minh.
[He apparently worked as a pastry chef in the hotel kitchen while studying in Boston. The surviving evidence is scanty, as you might imagine, but not in dispute.]
[photo mine, taken this afternoon since I was coincidentally in the immediate neighbourhood]
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