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...showed me to a seat in the middle, lit as if it were in a corner. The man across from me watched her approvingly as she walked away in her bright red vest. "Is your muffin hot?" I whispered...

Author: By Julia T. Winebottom, | Title: The Pewter Pot | 4/30/1968 | See Source »

...weatherbeaten, seafaring sort of man--leaned over, dipped his knife into the butter (which comes in little pewter buckets) and spread some onto his muffin. The muffin crumbled...

Author: By Julia T. Winebottom, | Title: The Pewter Pot | 4/30/1968 | See Source »

...said the man, and went back to his lukewarm muffin...

Author: By Julia T. Winebottom, | Title: The Pewter Pot | 4/30/1968 | See Source »

...pity that they call it a muffin house, because everything besides the muffins is a delight. The sirloin steak--the Pewter Pot's only substantial meal--reminds you of the good old days when steaks were thick and juicy, and also of a backyard barbecue. There are no fancy sauces, just good olde fashioned American fare--baked beans and clam chowder and suchlike...

Author: By Julia T. Winebottom, | Title: The Pewter Pot | 4/30/1968 | See Source »

...whole place has a precious air of olde fashioned Americanness: wooden beams on the ceiling, pewter saltcellars, and murals. One has the merry muffinman wheeling his muffincart past a streetsign marked "Muffin Sq.," and another shows a bunch of Harvard students alighting from their horses, obviously discussing the local muffinhouse, which serves simple but solid fare...

Author: By Julia T. Winebottom, | Title: The Pewter Pot | 4/30/1968 | See Source »

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