by Phoebe Damrosch
I wasn't blown away or stunned, but Damrosch is competent in her writing and her experience of working at the French Laundry's NY sister restaurant, Per Se, is distinct as well as distinct from [b:Waiter Rant|2187270|Waiter Rant Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter|Steve Dublanica|htt...
I love books about waiting tables, since that's what I'm a pro at. And I can sympathize with most every server story. But I found this book very stuffy and stuck-up. She talks down to a lot of foods and ingredients, like I, the reader, am beneath her for using plain table salt. I got this book at th...
I'm fascinated by books that give me an insider's description of some profession I'm not personally intimately familiar with. This was no exception, and I actually think it was just as good as "Waiter Rant" by The Waiter. Sure, it included a lot about Phoebe's personal life as well, but as her perso...
My review
More like 2 and 1/2. Kitchen Confidential this is not. It's a well done memoir of one of the few woman to have worked as captain, something like head waiter at one of the four stars New York restaurants. The style is average almost pedestrian. The reader doesn't get involved in the inner working of ...
I read this book quickly while I had a cold. I found it fascinating the level of detail and knowledge and training that go into 4 star restaurants. The author is fluctuating between restaurant waiting and beginning a writing career. In a sequence of events that seems almost unbelievable to me, she l...
High-class restaurant waiter/captain's memoir is very readable but undecided whether to be about the food or about the love affairs. The parts about the food are pretty good, but it's not all that well-written, in my opinion. More tedious than riveting.
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