Hotbox : inside catering, the food world's riskiest business / Matt Lee and Ted Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Matt (Cookbook author), author.

Lee, Ted, author.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caterers and catering--Management.

Caterers and catering.

Physical Description:

xii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2019.

Summary:

"Hotbox exposes the real-life drama behind cavernous event spaces and soaring white tents, where cooking conditions have more in common with a mobile army hospital than a restaurant. Known for their modern take on Southern cooking, the Lee brothers steeped themselves in the catering business for four years, learning the culture from the inside-out. It's a realm where you find eccentric characters, working in extreme conditions, who must produce magical events and instantly adapt when, for instance, the host's toast runs a half-hour too long, a hail storm erupts, or a rolling rack of hundreds of ice cream desserts goes wheels-up. Whether they're dashing through black-tie fundraisers, celebrity-spotting at a Hamptons cookout, or following a silverware crew at 3:00 a.m. in a warehouse in New Jersey, the Lee brothers guide you on a romp from the inner circle--the elite team of chefs using little more than their wits and Sterno to turn out lamb shanks for eight hundred--to the outer reaches of the industries that facilitate the most dazzling galas. You'll never attend a party, or entertain on your own, in the same way after reading this book."--Book jacket.

Contents:

Manchego Mayhem

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer

sidebar : prep facts

The client is (almost) always right

Fiesta in the palace

The telephone chef, the glorious guys, and G.I Joe veterans frankfurter service

Dinner in light and dark

sidebar : sheet pan magic

The big pink hippo

sidebar : glass facts

Sixteen hundred deviled eggs

sidebar : working the hotbox

Can I even eat this?

No milk! (butter and cream okay)

Great expectations

sidebar : bathtub pasta salad

The happy couple fancied themselves food curators

sidebar : nuptials by the numbers

Piercing the veil.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781627792615

1627792619

OCLC:

1033788030