SERVICE INCLUDED: FOUR-STAR SECRETS OF AN EAVESDROPPING WAITER
By Phoebe Damrosch
Morrow, 228 pages, $24.95
Phoebe Damrosch (or her publisher) tries to serve her cake and eat it too by positioning Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter as a devil-wears-a-toque memoir about working in the dining room at Thomas Keller’s Per Read More
When Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential (now the basis for a sitcom on Fox) was published in 2000, it yanked aside the culinary curtain and displayed the restaurant kitchen in all its ugliness. Julie and Julia, a revealing memoir about how Julie Powell challenged herself to cook in a single year every one of the 524 Read More
Chuck Dugan Is AWOL: A Novel with Maps, by Eric Chase Anderson. Chronicle Books, 223 pages, $19.95.
If you’re nostalgic for the days when talk of the military brought to mind images of derring-do and not the black-hooded figures of Abu Ghraib, you’ll cotton to Eric Chase Anderson’s sweet boy’s adventure tale, Chuck Dugan Is Read More
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise, by Ruth Reichl. The Penguin Press, 333 pages, $24.95.
In Ruth Reichl’s first memoir, Tender at the Bone (1998), about her peculiar childhood, food was love. In her second, Comfort Me with Apples (2001), which covered her coming-of-age as a writer and a woman, Read More
