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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100063327600

ISBN-139780063327603

eBay Product ID (ePID)20069648375

Product Key Features

Book TitleCare and Feeding : a Memoir

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2025

TopicWomen, Culinary, Personal Memoirs

GenreBiography & Autobiography

AuthorLaurie Woolever

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight16.5 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Gritty, unflinching, powerful." -- Nigella Lawson "Care and Feeding is literary proof that the lives and stories of women so often pushed behind the scenes are always so much more interesting, dynamic, and delicious than the stories we've been sold. Woolever's voice, representing women born into a particular kind of world that required shapeshifting and quiet transgressions, is now loud and clear and heroic." -- Lisa Donovan, author of Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger "I was riveted by this fast-paced, scrupulously honest, and searching memoir that leaves no stone unturned, from the restaurant-world insider adventures of Laurie Woolever's early career and the outsized personalities she encountered along the way to her heroic and unvarnished struggles with marriage, motherhood, and work. Fans of Woolever's writing about Anthony Bourdain will not be disappointed by this deeply personal and elegantly wrought story of sacrifice, love, and everything Woolever ate and drank along the way to her current hard-won happiness and sobriety." -- Emily Gould, author of Perfect Tunes

Dewey Decimal647.95092

SynopsisAn 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 tragedy In 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.