most cooks in Boston made approximately $416 annually. With Sanzian as the head chef, the resturaunt quickly became an upscale culinary destination for Boston elite. A typical menu from the chef could include, mock turtle soup, boiled turkey in oyster sauce, ham in champagne, and much more. In 1856, Sanzian reportedly invented the Boston cream pie, originally called Chocolate Cream Pie or Parker House Chocolate Cream Pie. The original recipe had more distinctly French details, like a rum glaze brushed onto the cake layers and slivered almonds around the sides. In the 1860's a German baker working at the Parker House Restaurant created Parker House rolls, commonly known as Parker rolls. The legend says an angry baker threw a tray of unfinished rolls in the oven after an argument with a hotel guest. When he took the rolls out, they were puffy on the inside and crispy and buttery on the outside with a distinct folded shape. The popularity of the bread generated many copycat recipes, the oldest of which was printed in an April 1974 edition of the New Hampshire Sentinel. However, the official recipe remained a secret until 1933 when U.S President Franklin Roosevelt request they be served at a White House Dinner. Famous employees Ho Chi Minh worked as a baker at the hotel from 1912 to 1913. Malcolm X, then going by the name Malcolm Little, worked as a busboy at the hotel in the 1940s. Long before he was a culinary superstar, Emeril Lagasse served as sous-chef in the Parker kitchens from 1979 to 1981. In literature and music For more than 150 years, the Parker House has appeared in prose and poetry set in and around Boston. Edith Wharton included a private meeting between characters Mr. Newland Archer and Countess Ellen Olenska at the Parker House in her celebrated work of the early 20th century, The Age of Innocence. Archer is told that the Countess Olenska is staying in Boston at the Parker House, and he flees Newport to meet her there. Quentin Compson treats himself to a meal at Parker's Restaurant before committing suicide by flinging himself from the Anderson Memorial Bridge into the Charles River in William Faulkner's 1929 novel "The Sound and the Fury." In Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' Willy Loman claims he 'met a salesman in the Parker House'. One imagines that as today a salesman would meet