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Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter
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“... to me, a restaurant with no menu, headed by a chef I trusted, would be ideal. In such a utopia, guests could specify deathly allergies, hunger level, and time constraints, but then they would unfurl their napkin and surrender".”
― Phoebe Damrosch, Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter
― Phoebe Damrosch, Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter
“Toward the end of that session at the Hudson, our instructor split us into two long lines and took out a bouquet of multicolored feathers.
'I would normally give the feathers to the ladies,' she explained as she passed them out, 'but we will have to make do.' Out of fifty or so front-of-the-house employees present, there were maybe six or seven women.
'The point of this dance is to think about giving and receiving,' she said, pressing play on her tiny boom box. A slow and stately march started playing through tinny speakers, a march to which we learned a simple dance: stepping up to our partner to give him the feather, stepping back to a bow, taking his hand, turning around, receiving the feather again, and stepping back to the line.
'Are you starting to feel each other's sense of space?' she called out. Someone sneezed.
As the dance went on, we grew more comfortable with one another, fighting and roughhousing over the props.
'I've been defeathered!'
'Giveth the feather backeth or I will have to unsheathe my sword!”
― Phoebe Damrosch, Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter
'I would normally give the feathers to the ladies,' she explained as she passed them out, 'but we will have to make do.' Out of fifty or so front-of-the-house employees present, there were maybe six or seven women.
'The point of this dance is to think about giving and receiving,' she said, pressing play on her tiny boom box. A slow and stately march started playing through tinny speakers, a march to which we learned a simple dance: stepping up to our partner to give him the feather, stepping back to a bow, taking his hand, turning around, receiving the feather again, and stepping back to the line.
'Are you starting to feel each other's sense of space?' she called out. Someone sneezed.
As the dance went on, we grew more comfortable with one another, fighting and roughhousing over the props.
'I've been defeathered!'
'Giveth the feather backeth or I will have to unsheathe my sword!”
― Phoebe Damrosch, Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter
“In order to understand the sequence of VIP canapés, we were taught a little etymology 101. At the French Laundry and Per Se, the whole range of amuse-bouches (literally translating to 'mouth amusers'), from soups to blini, is referred to as canapés. This is, however, not technically accurate. The word canapé comes from the French word for couch, and actually refers to the specific practice of resting a savory topping on a piece of toast or cracker like Mr. Bichalot's slippered feet on his chaise lounge, only infinitely more savory.”
― Phoebe Damrosch, Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter
― Phoebe Damrosch, Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter
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