Service Included - Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter

Informationen zum Autor Phoebe Damrosch is a graduate of Barnard College at Columbia University and holds an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in New York City and no longer waits on tables. Klappentext Warning: May contain material offensive to vegans, pharmaceutical lobbyists, and those on a low-sodium diet. Animals were harmed during the writing of this book.While Phoebe Damrosch was waiting for life to happen, she supported herself by working as a waitress. Before long she was the only female captain at the four-star New York City restaurant Per Se during its first year. Service Included is the story of her obsession with food, her love affair with a sommelier, and her amusing, eye-opening, and sometimes shocking experiences in the fascinating, frenetic, highly competitive world of fine dining.Sitting down at a restaurant table will never be the same. Zusammenfassung Warning: May contain material offensive to vegans! pharmaceutical lobbyists! and those on a low-sodium diet. Animals were harmed during the writing of this book. While Phoebe Damrosch was waiting for life to happen! she supported herself by working as a waitress. Before long she was the only female captain at the four-star New York City restaurant Per Se during its first year. Service Included is the story of her obsession with food! her love affair with a sommelier! and her amusing! eye-opening! and sometimes shocking experiences in the fascinating! frenetic! highly competitive world of fine dining. Sitting down at a restaurant table will never be the same.

Product details

• Authors: Phoebe Damrosch
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.10.2008
• EAN: 9780061228155
• ISBN: 978-0-06-122815-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: General, COOKING: General, COOKING: Seasonal, COOKING: Comfort Food, COOKING: Methods / Slow Cooking, COOKING: Entertaining, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Cultural & Regional