During Valentine's Day week, the Astor Court serves heart-shaped scones along with its traditional petits fours and finger sandwiches.
A syndrome of prolonged, severe chest pain was first described in medical literature in 1912 by James Bryan Herrick, who attributed the syndrome to coronary thrombosis, the development of a clot in a major blood vessel serving the heart.
"They were eating them all over the place," says Osborne, who has been serving duck hearts sautéed with mousseron mushrooms and wild dandelions and a fry-up of chicken hearts and chicken livers, another French favourite.
With the patient's heart serving as the pump, the blood was then directed back into the body.
A cafeteria on the third floor will serve 3,000 "heart healthy" meals a day.
She ends up being unwittingly served his heart as her final meal.
When the Protector learns of her infidelity — in a manner arranged, with cruel deliberation, by Agnès — he murders the Boy and serves his heart to Agnès at dinner.
The walls of her year-old restaurant are dotted with proclamations of bonhomie — there's a chalkboard announcing, "We serve with heart and proudly support local farms," a blaring light-bulb-studded "LOVE" sign, and a giant stencilled Julia Child quote likening cooking to, well, love.
For decades she has been the town's gentle heart, serving ice cream in the summer to children still glistening with lake water.
