Kitchen Con Writing on the Restaurant Racket

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ISBN: 9781611454659

ISBN-10: 1611454654

ISBN-13: 9781611454659

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Authors: Trevor White

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Are all food critics corrupt? What’s the trick for getting a table tonight in America’s and Europe’s most fashionable restaurants? Find out in Kitchen Con. Waiter and customer have a lot in common. Each lingers under the delusion that lunch is on the way, neither has more than a passing interest in the other, and both are at the mercy of an ill-tempered thug with a white toque, writes Trevor White in this hilarious account of life as a restaurant critic. Kitchen Con is his passionate, intelligent exposé of the restaurant business, from the world’s first restaurant after the French Revolution to today’s most fashionable tables in London, Paris, and New York. With style and humor, White lifts…

Book details

List price: $12.95
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Trevor White has worked as a restaurant critic in Dublin, London, and New York. He divides his time among all three cities. He is the Dublin regional editor for Zagat.



Introduction






The Hungry Hooker: Why Restaurants Are Brothels for the Mouth



The Age of Appetite: A Survey of the Way We Eat Today



Accounting for Taste: The Author Admits His Past



Kitchen Con: How the Racket Works



The Truth about Guidebooks: The Author Loses a Job



The English Experience: On Going to Lunch for London



Celebrity Chefs: Starring Gordon Ramsay and Conrad Gallagher



The Waiting Game: Reflections on the Value of Service



On Failing to Take Manhattan: 1998-2000



"Your Table Is Ready": The Four Sweetest Words



The Lamppost and the Dog: Writing about the Racket






Silly Season in the Wilderness: Food, Politics, and Morgan Spurlock



In Defense of Expensive Restaurants: The Author Puts On Weight



Sex and the Single Waitress: Meeting Mr. Kitchen Confidential



The Critic on Trial: Part I: The Prosecution



The Critic on Trial: Part II: The Defense



Good Food, Good Life: On Demolishing the Bad


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Bibliography


Index