false 490495 3 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. <i>Service Included</i> 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. 478724 1 10 2007 Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter total:769|5:53|4:256|3:317|2:121|1:22| 769 2504 1305 253 2 2 false false Tue Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 20:46:55 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 23:55:11 -0700 2008
The memoirs of a waiter at Thomas Keller's Per Se in New York, Phoebe Damrosch does an admirable job of letting us see into a world that we may experience as a customer, but rarely experience from the othe...more...]]> 1 3 false false Sun Feb 10 23:20:24 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 27 22:21:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 3 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 27 13:07:18 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 15 14:15:45 -0700 2007
Rather than being a front-of-the-house Kitchen Confidential, it comes across more as...more...]]> 3 2 false false Sun Jan 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 10:26:30 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 10:45:42 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Apr 01 12:02:51 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 01 12:23:37 -0700 2008
Damrosch's funny memoir chronicles her years spent as a backserver and then captain at Per Se, one of th...more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 31 14:24:07 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 31 14:33:00 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 29 05:25:12 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 02 17:34:12 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 1 false false Wed Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 14:16:44 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 14:21:05 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Dec 31 07:20:18 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 31 07:25:54 -0800 2007
To be successful, memoirs need to be more than the story of one person's experience. The must reach out and touch readers in a way in which a b...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 11 11:37:14 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 11 11:43:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 27 13:55:40 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 08 10:08:04 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 30 02:54:09 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 02:55:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 12:46:15 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 14:01:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 09:55:57 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 10:03:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 17:28:59 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 21:49:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 06:54:49 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 07:56:33 -0700 2009
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Five stars to any parts of the book that are about the author's job, Per Se, or Thomas Keller. These chapters were fascinating and smartly written. This is not a memoir wh...more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Dec 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 20:49:18 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 08:52:19 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon May 11 17:22:02 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 17:26:49 -0700 2009
This one was a little, well, boring. Repetitive, punctuated with good stories but overall just the story of a woman who wasn't really in waiting for any reason I could figure out. Chance? A taste for food? Certainly not for love...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 09:40:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 09:11:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=490495