Care and Feeding

Laurie Woolever’s Care and Feeding details her decades hustling in NYC’s food world, including her work for Anthony Bourdain and Mario Batali.

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Laurie Woolever, longtime assistant and co-author to Anthony Bourdain (Bourdain’s Appetites and World Travel) tells her own story in Care and Feeding. This memoir of her decades hustling for a place in New York City’s food world focuses in part on her experiences with the two men who defined that place for her: the compelling…

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