BOSTON — The Omni Parker House is more than just a historic hotel in Boston. It’s an institution that is single-handedly responsible for inventing or defining three notable dishes in New England.
First, there are Parker House rolls, the fluffy dinner rolls that helped redefine how Americans eat bread.
There’s also the Boston cream pie, the official state dessert of Massachusetts. Its invention in 1856 is one of the hotel’s biggest claims to fame…