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Care and Feeding
Care and Feeding | Laurie Woolever
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In this moving, hilarious, and insightful memoir, Laurie Woolever traces her path from a small-town childhood to working at revered restaurants and food publications, alternately bolstered and overshadowed by two of the most powerful men in the business. But there's more to the story than the two bold-faced names on her resume: Mario Batali and Anthony Bourdain. Behind the scenes, Laurie's life is frequently chaotic, an often pleasurable buffet of bad decisions at which she frequently overstays her welcome. Acerbic and wryly self-deprecating, Laurie attempts to carve her own space as a woman in this world that is by turns toxic and intoxicating. Laurie seeks to try it all--from a seedy Atlantic City strip club to the Park Hyatt Tokyo, from a hippie vegetarian co-op to the legendary El Bulli--while balancing her consuming work with her sometimes ambivalent relationship to marriage and motherhood. As the food world careens toward an overdue reckoning and Laurie's mentors face their own high-profile descents, she is confronted with the questions of where she belongs and how to hold on to the parts of her life's work that she truly values: care and feeding.
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Amor4Libros
Amor4Libros
Care and Feeding | Laurie Woolever
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Current (2nd!) audiobook… Library hold came in and couldn‘t wait to start it!

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Chelsea.Poole
Chelsea.Poole
Care and Feeding | Laurie Woolever
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I‘m wondering if Laurie Woolever has any secrets left after this memoir! She shares her time as a private chef for the incredibly rich, as an assistant to Mario Batali, as well as Anthony Bourdain (Tony comes out much more lovely in the book and Batali is a pig.). She shares her personal life with great detail, not sparing any of the messiness of real life: her dating life, marriage, giving birth, becoming a mother, her own mother‘s illness.

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BirdLaVie
BirdLaVie
Care and Feeding | Laurie Woolever
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A delicious peek behind the curtain of the celebrity food world ranging from downright seedy to totally outlandish! Laurie‘s exposè of herself and her famous bosses is raw and unflinching, presenting her soul-searching journey through addiction while striving in the food industry on a steaming silver platter. I was mesmerized the entire time! 5 ?

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JenReadsAlot
JenReadsAlot
Care and Feeding | Laurie Woolever
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#botm bookmail!

BirdLaVie I am devouring Care & Feeding, it‘s so fun! 2mo
JenReadsAlot @BirdLaVie Good to hear! 2mo
BooksandCoffee4Me I loved The Lion Women of Tehran! 2mo
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Megabooks
Megabooks
Care and Feeding | Laurie Woolever
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Well, in keeping with the theme of things going wrong this year…

I had put my membership on pause, but when I saw this Bourdain-adjacent book I have been following for a year was a pick, I unpaused. But it wouldn‘t let me add any more books like Liquid, which sounded cool, or Wild Dark Shore. So I ordered and called an hour later when customer support opened to see if I could add to my box. Nope label printed done and done. ⬇️

Megabooks I probably dodged a bullet though because I‘ll be a friend (again) next month, so I can add them on at a better price. I really don‘t need to be getting BOTM and aardvark every month, and overall, I like aardvark‘s picks better, but BOTM will always pull me in with books like Care and Feeding. Idk y‘all. Books are an addiction and shopping is a distraction. 3mo
AmyG Sending a hug. 3mo
Centique No guilt about a bit of book buying if it gives you some joy lovely Meg! Go easy on yourself - when youre in a tough place, the little things that help are good and necessary. I hope it wont be long until your dad is doing better 💕 3mo
BarbaraBB Sending love Meg. I hope the books offer some distraction from the worries about your lovely Dad. I hope you‘ll all come to peace soon with the new situation and that you‘ll be able to enjoy those books ❤️😘 3mo
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