by Marion Nestle

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Aug 28 2020

Weekend reading: a catering memoir

Carol Durst-Wertheim.  Vignettes & Vinaigrettes: A Memoir of Catering before Food was Hot.  Full Court Press, 2020.

Amazon.com: Vignettes & Vinaigrettes: A Memoir Of Catering Before ...

I did a blurb for this one:

In one entertaining anecdote after another, Durst-Wertheim gives us the dirt on what it was really like to be a woman running a catering business in New York City at the end of the 20th Century.   Her warm-hearted stories are tough, dishy, and poignant, and tell it like it was and, no doubt, still is.