Natalie Danford
Articles by Natalie Danford
A Per Se Waiter’s Memoir: No Blood on the Plate
Thomas Keller’s Per Se in the Time Warner Center.
Phoebe Damrosch (or her publisher) tries to serve her cake and eat it too by positioning Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter as a devil-wears-a-toque memoir about working in the dining room at Thomas Keller’s Per Se. Only the highly sensitive could be offended by this tame tell-all. read more »
The Ugly Truth About Cooking Served Up in a Rambling Memoir
When Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential (now the basis for a sitcom on Fox) was published in read more »
The Ugly Truth About Cooking Served Up in a Rambling Memoir
Kelly Campbell; Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty Images
Julie Powell (above) cooked her way through a Julia Child classic.
Original, Curious, Appealing: Adventure Cunningly Diagrammed
Chuck Dugan Is AWOL: A Novel with Maps, by Eric Chase Anderson. read more »
Recipes and a Dash of Fiction Not Enough to Spice Up Memoir
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise, by Ruth Reichl. read more »
