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Winner of the 2022 Silver Metal “IPPY” Award for Humorous Writing "A WITTY AND INSIGHTFUL BEHIND-THE-SCENES JOURNEY INTO THE RESTAURANT-INDUSTRY BEAST." After almost ten thousand evenings of life as a chef and restauranteur, Tony Di Lembo dives into the world of restaurant madness and shares an insider’s perspective from both sides of the swinging kitchen doors. His literary voyage chronicles fifty hard-living years of adventures and professional pandemonium, including his time as Barbra Streisand’s personal chef and the opening of big-city restaurants and all that follows—hurdles of construction and staffing, opening night horror stories, the fast-paced chaos of day-to-day madness, and the anguish of the recent industry shutdowns from the ominous virus that’s plagued us all. The storytelling narrative is a fascinating, no-BS exposé of the business—the joys and the catastrophes, the idiosyncrasies and lurking perils of the dining public, and the psyche of waiters and the sweating culinarians who push through night after night trying to make thousands of strangers happy. Told with uncommon honesty and grit, this page-turner is humorous, scandalous, and deliciously cynical—you’ll never experience a restaurant in quite the same way! Chef and author Tony Di Lembo has always been a restless soul, born into a family with a passion for good food that he has parlayed into a lifetime of cooking and running restaurants. He has endured thousands of employees and customers whose stories are lusciously blended into this candid memoir. He is the author of the award-winning Tropicale Restaurant Cookbook .
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Running Through the Swinging Doors
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