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ISBN: 0061228141

ISBN13: 9780061228148

Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter

Name: You&#39;ll want to read this if you&#39;re in the restaurant industry . . . or you enjoy dining out
Item: Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter
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By Phoebe Damrosch

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Book Overview

Warning: May contain material offensive to vegans, pharmaceutical lobbyists, and those on a low-sodium diet. Animals were harmed during the writing of this book. While Phoebe Damrosch was waiting for life to happen, she supported herself by working as a waitress. Before long she was the only female captain at the four-star New York City restaurant Per Se during its first year. Service Included is the story of her obsession with food, her love affair with a sommelier, and her amusing, eye-opening, and sometimes shocking experiences in the fascinating, frenetic, highly competitive world of fine dining. Sitting down at a restaurant table will never be the same. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0061228141

ISBN13:9780061228148

Release Date:September 2007

Publisher:William Morrow

Length:240 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"

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Rated 5 stars
You'll want to read this if you're in the restaurant industry . . . or you enjoy dining out

By Thriftbooks.com User, November 25, 2008

SERVICE INCLUDED by Phoebe Damrosch had me hooked when I read the back cover and its WARNING: May contain material offensive to vegans, pharmaceutical lobbyists and those on a low-sodium diet. Animals were harmed during the writing of this book. Now that sounded like something I would want to read . . . and I did--with delight. Damrosch, upon graduation from college, supported herself as a waitress . . . she soon became...

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Rated 5 stars
A Good Read

By Thriftbooks.com User, December 3, 2007

I have read many books about restaurants, chefs, cookbooks, etc. Most of the books are either from the Chef's point of view or the other cooks' in the Back-of-House. This book comes from the Front-of-House point of view, which makes it a particularly interesting read. The author is a waitress in one of New York's greatest and most famous restaurants, Chef Thomas Keller's Per Se. She takes us through the training, through...

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Rated 5 stars
Glenn

By Thriftbooks.com User, December 3, 2007

Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter Excellent read. I enjoy great food which also requires great service to make it work. This book provides insight into the inner workings of one of the countries best chefs and his restaurants. My wife bought the book and couldn't stop talking about it. The author writes so well I also couldn't put the book down. I have always had the utmost respect for those who...

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Rated 5 stars
Delicious Reading

By Thriftbooks.com User, October 10, 2007

Damrosch describes food, service and love as the arts that they are, with a touch of poetry that is never heavy handed. I was amazed, amused and moved. The slices of behind-the-scenes life at Per Se, cheesemaking in Vermont and a blossoming romance in NYC make for a very satisfying journey. It almost made me want to become a waiter!

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Rated 5 stars
Without Reservations

By Thriftbooks.com User, September 28, 2007

The recent hit movie NO RESERVATIONS whetted my appetite for a fastmoving, romance-based book about life in a busy, four star restaurant in a big, glittering city, and a friend recommended SERVICE INCLUDED, by Phoebe Damrosch, adding that from what he heard, Miss Damrosch had actually lived the life that Catherine Zeta-Jones had acted out in the movie I so loved, except at a slightly different level--as a busboy, then a waiter,...

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