{"product_id":"gluttony-at-table-1-the-restaurant-that-wouldnt-die-9781506192888","title":"Gluttony at Table #1: The Restaurant That Wouldn't Die","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Employee X\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Culinary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe grim, outrageous, clinical details of a well-known Manhattan restaurant's rise, fall, and protracted and ludicrous death throes. From Anthony Bourdain, author of \u003cem\u003eKitchen Confidential\u003c\/em\u003e \"For some time, I've been on the receiving end of a series of long, tortured e-mails, first person dispatches from the front lines of restaurant hell. For almost a year, \"Employee X,\" a NYC restaurant version of Deep Throat regaled me regularly with the grim, outrageous, clinical details of a well-known Manhattan restaurant's rise, fall and protracted and ludicrous death throes. Employee X, clinging to his job at the nerve center of a wildly dysfunctional beast of a restaurant kept me - and a discrete group of appreciative aficionados - constantly informed of every cough and gurgle - every terrifying injustice, humiliation, dashed hope, and bizzarro initiative. It is a story painfully familiar to too many of us who have toiled in the vineyards of restaurateurs from Hell. Employee X had to live it. We readers are now the beneficiaries. \u003cem\u003eGluttony at Table #1\u003c\/em\u003e is a samizdat Kitchen Confidential written in real time, from a narrator with a more omniscient view. Part journal, part personal journey, part freak show, it's a lurid, sensational look into the very deepest, darkest corner of restaurant rectum for which we should all be grateful. This is a story which makes Rocco and Chowderhead's battle of the publicists look like a schoolyard catfight. Welcome to the all-too-real world of \u003cem\u003eGluttony at Table #1: The Restaurant That Wouldn't Die\u003c\/em\u003e.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Createspace Independent Publishing Platform","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45497373655191,"sku":"9781506192888","price":1238.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781506192888.webp?v=1767154572","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/gluttony-at-table-1-the-restaurant-that-wouldnt-die-9781506192888","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}