Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Original) and surprisingly moving memoir by

and surprisingly moving memoir by the visionary restaurateur behind such iconic New York institutions as Balthazar and Pastis

and crafted his persona with meticulous care

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a young woman with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis in this "sweeping and magnificent" (Fiona Davis

Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Original) and surprisingly moving memoir by*NOW AN LA TIMES BESTSELLER* *AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* The first book in the five million copy bestselling magical realism series If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet? In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a caf that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee the chance to travel back in time. Over the course of one summer,