Service Included - Phoebe Damrosch

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Title: Service Included
Author: Phoebe Damrosch
Genre: Memoir
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 222
Date read: January, 2011

While Phoebe Damrosch was waiting for life to happen, she supported herself by working as a waitress. Before long she was the only female captain at the four-star New York City restaurant Per Se during its first year. Service Included is the story of her obsession with food, her love affair with a sommelier, and her amusing, eye-opening, and sometimes shocking experiences in the fascinating, frenetic, highly competitive world of fine dining.

I'm fascinated by books that give me an insider's description of some profession I'm not personally intimately familiar with. This was no exception, and I actually think it was just as good as "Waiter Rant" by The Waiter. Sure, it included a lot about Phoebe's personal life as well, but as her personal life was so directly influenced by her work, I didn't mind at all.

But just like any other book of this type, I got so hungry for good food while reading it!