Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter

Phoebe Damrosch

ISBN 10: 0061228141 / ISBN 13: 9780061228148

Published by William Morrow, New York, NY, 2007

About this Item

SIGNED by author on title page. Light edge wear, pages beginning to yellow, interior is clean.

Seller Inventory # 005061

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter
• Publisher: William Morrow, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0061228141
• ISBN 13: 9780061228148
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Kitchen Confidential meets Sex and the City in this delicious, behind-the-scenes memoir from the first female captain at one of New York City's most prestigious restaurants

While Phoebe Damrosch was figuring out what to do with her life, she supported herself by working as a waiter. Before long she was a captain at the New York City four-star restaurant Per Se, the culinary creation of master chef Thomas Keller.

Service Included is the story of her experiences there: her obsession with food, her love affair with a sommelier, and her observations of the highly competitive and frenetic world of fine dining.

She also provides the following dining tips:

• Please do not ask your waiter what else he or she does.
• Please do not steal your waiter's pen.
• Please do not say you're allergic when you don't like something.
• Please do not send something back after eating most of it.
• Please do not make faces or gagging noises when hearing the specials—someone else at the table might like to order one of them.

After reading this book, diners will never sit down at a restaurant table the same way again.

About the Author

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.