Care and feeding : a memoir / Laurie Woolever.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woolever, Laurie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Woolever, Laurie.

Women food writers--United States--Biography.

Women food writers.

Women cooks--United States--Biography.

Women cooks.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 334 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025]

Summary:

"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"-- Amazon.com.

Contents:

Introduction

Hayseed

Fat-free Reddi-Whip

Don't freak out

Inflammation and swelling

Coke can dick

Lamb's tongue

Whole panties hangin' out

Dogs

Chopper

Meetings

Parting gift

Executive editor

Dinner party

Techno-emotional

Stewpot

The narcissism of small differences

Black death

I'm your assistant

It's not a metaphor

Sexless separates

This is nowhere

Brian

Vortex

Jack

Class act

Jaffna

Threat

Asia

Family emergency

I'll live

Life insurance

Emotional sobriety

Epilogue: Jujubes and diamonds

Acknowledgments.

ISBN:

9780063327603

0063327600

OCLC:

1446544769