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Author Reed, Kim, 1978- author.

Title Workhorse : my sublime and absurd years in New York City's restaurant scene / Kim Reed.

Publication Info. New York : Hachette Books, 2021.

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Location Call No. Status
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  647.9574 REED    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description viii, 276 pages ; 25 cm
Contents Authentic Italian bloodlines -- Kick the cabinet -- Baby blue button-downs -- Little lieutenant -- The reservation racket -- Bits of casing and lemon peel -- Night dogs and day dogs -- Groupie -- Il cane di Bastianich -- The dream team -- A fly on the wall -- Caffè Corretto on Christmas -- Obstructionist -- Flip the switch -- Fruit on the table -- Like magic.
Summary "For years, Kim's day job was a social worker to the home-bound elderly in Brooklyn Heights. Then she'd scramble into Manhattan to make her hostess shifts at Babbo, where even the Pope would have trouble scoring a reservation, and Gwyneth Paltrow and Ryan Reynolds squeezed through the jam-packed entryway like everyone else. Despite her sometimes fifteen-hour days, Kim couldn't make ends meet, up to her eyeballs in grad school debt. Her social work training -- problem solving, crisis intervention work, dealing with unpredictable people and random situations -- made her the ideal assistant for Joe Bastianich, a hard-partying, "What's next?" food and wine entrepreneur who drummed up new business ventures one after another. He rose to fame in Italy as a TV star while Kim planned parties, fielded calls, and negotiated his deals from a cell phone on the go. Eventually, something had to give, and that was Kim herself. With no life outside her job, she was panicked about ending up alone without building the family she craved. Workhorse is a deep-dive into the chaos of the NYC foodie craze as well as an all-too-relatable look at what happens when your job takes over your life, and when a scandal upends your understanding of where you work and what you do. As Kim realized, if you can make the impossible possible for someone else, you can do the same for yourself"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Reed, Kim, 1978-
Food service -- New York (State) -- New York.
Food service employees -- United States -- Biography.
Social workers -- United States -- Biography.
Administrative assistants -- United States -- Biography.
HOUSE & HOME / General.
Administrative assistants. (OCoLC)fst00796827
Food service. (OCoLC)fst00931080
Food service employees. (OCoLC)fst00931135
Social workers. (OCoLC)fst01123585
New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
ISBN 9780306875106 (hardcover)
0306875101 (hardcover)
9780306875083 (ebook)
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