Name: Care and Feeding. A Memoir
Price: 313.00 ZAR
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Author: Laurie Woolever
ISBN: 9780063327627

Type

Physical Book

Author

Laurie Woolever

Publisher

ECCO Press

Year

2026

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.30 x 13.50 cm

ISBN13

9780063327627

Care and Feeding. A Memoir

Laurie Woolever (Author) · ECCO Press · Paperback

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Delivery: 08 Jul - 31 Jul

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Synopsis "Care and Feeding. A Memoir"

An Instant New York Times Bestseller! A candid, funny, and occasionally devastating memoir of a woman making her way through the food world, navigating addiction, a cultural reckoning, and an unexpected tragedyIn this moving, hilarious, and insightful bestselling memoir, Laurie Woolever traces her path from a small-town childhood to working at revered restaurants and food publications, alternately bolstered and overshadowed by two of the most powerful men in the business. But there’s more to the story than the two bold-faced names on her resume: Mario Batali and Anthony Bourdain. Behind the scenes, Laurie’s life is frequently chaotic, an often pleasurable buffet of bad decisions at which she frequently overstays her welcome. Acerbic and wryly self-deprecating, Laurie attempts to carve her own space as a woman in this world that is by turns toxic and intoxicating. Laurie seeks to try it all—from a seedy Atlantic City strip club to the Park Hyatt Tokyo, from a hippie vegetarian co-op to the legendary El Bulli—while balancing her consuming work with her sometimes ambivalent relationship to marriage and motherhood. As the food world careens toward 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.

Laurie Woolever

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Laurie Woolever es una destacada escritora, editora y asistente culinaria estadounidense, reconocida principalmente por su estrecha colaboración profesional con el fallecido chef Anthony Bourdain durante casi una década (2009-2018). Comenzó su carrera tras estudiar cocina, trabajando como asistente personal y cocinera, antes de unirse al equipo de Mario Batali.

Woolever ha escrito para publicaciones de prestigio como The New York Times, GQ, Food & Wine y Saveur. Su trabajo más notorio fue coescribir el libro de cocina Appetites (2016) junto a Bourdain, y tras la muerte de este en 2018, curar y concluir el libro de viajes World Travel: An Irreverent Guide. Además, es autora de la aclamada biografía oral Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography (2021), una obra íntima basada en entrevistas con familiares, amigos y colaboradores del chef.

Con una sólida trayectoria en el mundo gastronómico y editorial, Woolever ha destacado por su capacidad para gestionar proyectos complejos y por su estilo narrativo directo. En 2025, anunció la publicación de sus propias memorias, Care and Feeding, donde narra su vida profesional y personal.

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