Care and Feeding

New York Times bestselling author of BOURDAIN
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Care and Feeding traces Laurie Woolever's journey from a small-town childhood to working at food publications and revered restaurants in New York and around the world. In her career, she joins forces with two of the most powerful men in the culinary world: Mario Batali and... Read More
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Care and Feeding

From the New York Times bestselling author Laurie Woolever, this is a very candid, funny and occasionally devastating memoir of a woman making her way through the food world while navigating addiction, a cultural reckoning and an unexpected tragedy.

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Care and Feeding traces Laurie Woolever's journey from a small-town childhood to working at food publications and revered restaurants in New York and around the world. In her career, she joins forces with two of the most powerful men in the culinary world: Mario Batali and Anthony Bourdain. However, there's more to this story than just the prominent names on her resume.

Behind the scenes, Laurie's life is chaotic, an often-pleasurable buffet of bad decisions at which she frequently overstays her welcome. Acerbic and wryly self-deprecating, Laurie attempts to carve out her own space as a woman in a world both toxic and intoxicating, while balancing her consuming work with a sometimes-ambivalent relationship to marriage and motherhood.

As the food world careens towards 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781923293267

Publisher: Affirm Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 March 2025

Country: Australia

Imprint: Affirm Press

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 432g

Pages: 352

About the Author

Laurie Woolever is a writer, editor, public speaker and former cook. For nearly a decade, she worked with the late author, TV host and producer Anthony Bourdain. She has written for the New York Times, Vogue, GQ, Food & Wine, Bloomberg and others, edited Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook (2004), and then spent several years as an editor at Art Culinaire and Wine Spectator. She also co-authored Appetites: A Cookbook with Anthony Bourdain, World Travel: An Irreverent Guide, and wrote Bourdain: In Stories, all New York Times bestsellers.

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