Patricia Murphy
Patricia Murphy
Patricia Murphywas a restaurateur who operated nine Patricia Murphy Candlelight restaurants in New York and Florida over the course of 50 years. Shortly after the Wall Street Crash of 1929, she invested her last $60 in a small Brooklyn restaurant. Soon she was one of the most successful restaurant owners in the New York area, serving a million meals a year in 1956. Her signature item was the popover, a hot bread dispensed from baskets by costumed servers known as...