Kitchen Con or Bounty of Central Florida

Kitchen Con: Writing on the Restaurant Racket

Author: Trevor Whit

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 restaurant critic Trevor White in his uproarious account and passionate and unbiased expose of the restaurant business. With style and wit, White lifts the lid off the culinary cartel - owners, chefs, and critics - that cons diners around the globe. A scathing attack on gourmet dogma, his defiantly populist critique of restaurant culture redefines the dining room as a place in which people should be satisfied rather than awe-struck by egomaniacal chefs, pretentious waiters, and arrogant critics. In this riveting account of life at the heart of the restaurant racket, no one is safe.

Table of Contents:

Introduction     xi
Part 1
The Hungry Hooker Why Restaurants Are Brothels for the Mouth     3
The Age of Appetite A Survey of the Way We Eat Today     9
Accounting for Taste The Author Admits His Past     25
Kitchen Con How the Racket Works     41
The Truth about Guidebooks The Author Loses a Job     53
The English Experience On Going to Lunch for London     71
Celebrity Chefs Starring Gordon Ramsay and Conrad Gallagher     91
The Waiting Game Reflections on the Value of Service     101
On Failing to Take Manhattan 1998-2000     109
"Your Table Is Ready" The Four Sweetest Words     125
The Lamppost and the Dog Writing about the Racket     133
Part 2
Silly Season in the Wilderness Food, Politics, and Morgan Spurlock     145
In Defense of Expensive Restaurants The Author Puts On Weight     165
Sex and the Single Waitress Meeting Mr. Kitchen Confidential     173
The Critic on Trial: Part I The Prosecution     189
The Critic on Trial: Part II The Defense     197
Good Food, Good Life On Demolishing the Bad     205
Epilogue     213
Acknowledgments     215
Bibliography     217
Index     221

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Bounty of Central Florida

Author: Valerie Hart

From citrus, berries and grapes to wild game and fish, Central Florida is a wealth of succulence. Cookbook author, Valerie Hart (The New Tradition Cookbook, endorsed by Craig Claiborne, James Villas and Marion Gorman), food writer (Association of Food Journalists), Zagat editor and restaurant critic (The Frolicking Foodie), has developed recipes that range from home-spun country to sophisticated gourmet with sensitive descriptions of the natural resources and lavish surroundings of the St. John's River and Harris Chain of Lakes to Hillsborough, Polk, Lake and Osceola County. The Bounty of Central Florida is more than a cookbook. It is a celebration of the splendor of nature.