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A tribute to legendary restaurateur Elaine Kaufman and her renowned Manhattan creative melting container. Elaine's was a world-famous New York restaurant that became home to authors and stars. Owner Elaine Kaufman was regarded as "New York feisty", questionable, often rude, always blunt, with the flare of Gertrude Stein and Dorothy Parker. Elaine was highly well known and sometimes feared, and Elaine's the restaurant received the public's love and compliment time and time again. Woody Allen performed a regular desk there, and Elaine's was even presented in Allen's Manhattan and Billy Joel's melody "Big Shot". Through the entire years Mick Jagger, John Lennon, and countless stars, politicians, socialites, private sight, athletes, and designers and the largest brands in Hollywood became Elaine's regulars. Most emphatically Elaine's raison d'être was to nourish "starving authors" with encouragement, introductions to Pulitzer Prize winners, and free food and liquor. These struggling authors taken care of immediately Elaine's support with serious gratitude. Elaine passed on this year 2010, forcing the restaurant administrator to close shop shortly after. "There is absolutely no Elaine's without Elaine", she decreed. However, the thoughts stay and are recalled by a number of Elaine's regulars in this moving, oftentimes amusing collection of personal essays.
