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Publisher
National GeographicBooks
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Follow the locals to their favorite foods throughout the United States, state by state, with the help of this gorgeously packaged travel planner. Anchored by regional specialties and the best places to sample them, Great American Eating Experiences serves up real-deal comfort foods like New Orleans Po' Boys and Chesapeake crab cakes, sprinkled with fun food factoids, food surprises, and more. Go beyond the Internet basics and discover the country's...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In 2019, the restaurant business was booming. Americans spent more than half of their annual food budgets dining out. In a generation, chefs had gone from behind-the-scenes laborers to TV stars. The arrival of Seamless, DoorDash, and other meal delivery apps was overtaking home cooking. Beneath all that growth lurked serious problems. Many of the best restaurants in the world employed unpaid cooks. Meal delivery apps were putting many restaurants...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"For years, Kim's day job was a social worker to the home-bound elderly in Brooklyn Heights. Then she'd scramble into Manhattan to make her hostess shifts at Babbo, where even the Pope would have trouble scoring a reservation, and Gwyneth Paltrow and Ryan Reynolds squeezed through the jam-packed entryway like everyone else. Despite her sometimes fifteen-hour days, Kim couldn't make ends meet, up to her eyeballs in grad school debt. Her social work...
Author
Publisher
Legacy Lit
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"While dreaming of an easier way to order pizza, Mike Evans founded the online food delivery site, Grubhub, in his spare bedroom and grew it into the multi-billion-dollar colossus that is now a household name. But it wasn't as easy as searching, clicking, and checking out. Mike's meteoric rise to the top of the booming tech and business world demanded a decade of 80 hour work weeks, endless financing rounds, cliffhanger acquisitions, the near collapse...
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Liz Hauck and her dad had a plan to start a weekly cooking program in a residential home for teen-aged boys in state care, which was run by the human services agency he co-directed. When her father died unexpectedly after a brief illness, Liz decided to attempt the cooking project without him. She didn't know what to expect volunteering with court-involved youth, but as a high school teacher she knew that teenagers are drawn to food-related activities,...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Last year, the Japanese company that created instant ramen sold 46 billion packs and cups of pre-flavored dried noodles. It is a ubiquitous food, especially beloved by anyone looking for a cheap, tasty bite-including, it turns out, prisoners, who buy instant ramen at the commissary and use it as the building block for all sorts of meals that foster bonds of loyalty and friendship. Now Prison Ramen takes readers behind bars, with 65 ramen recipes...
Publisher
Entrepreneur Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
At over a billion dollars, the mobile food industry is enjoying more publicity and notoriety than ever before. Catering to a new generation of foodies looking for quick and unique specialties, the mobile food business is booming with new opportunities for eager entrepreneurs like you. From gourmet food to all-American basics and hot dog wagons to bustaurants, our experts give you the delicious details behind starting and running a successful mobile...
11) A touch of Jen
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Remy and Alicia, a couple of insecure service workers, are not particularly happy together. But they are bound by a shared obsession with Jen, a beautiful former co-worker of Remy's who now seems to be following her bliss as a globe-trotting jewelry designer. In and outside the bedroom, Remy and Alicia's entire relationship revolves around fantasies of Jen, whose every Instagram caption, outfit, and new age mantra they know by heart. Imagine their...
12) The last shift
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
On the graveyard shift at Oscar's Chicken and Fish, Stanley is retiring after 38 years and has to train his young replacement. The Boomer dropout who is leaving this career behind and the Milennial columnist who is making ends meet find ways to connect in the early hours of a quiet kitchen.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
The back must slave to feed the belly....In this urgent and unique book, chef Michael Gibney uses twenty-four hours to animate the intricate camaraderie and culinary choreography in an upscale New York restaurant kitchen. Here, readers will find all the details in rapid-fire succession, of what it takes to deliver an exceptional plate of food -- the journey to excellence by way of exhaustion. With grit, wit, and remarkable prose, Michael Gibney renders...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An "examination of what we don't talk about when we talk about restaurants: Is the line cook working through a case of stomach flu because he doesn't get paid sick days? Is the busser not being promoted because he speaks with an accent? Is the server tolerating sexual harassment because tips are her only income? ... [This book] offers an insider's view of the highest--and lowest--scoring restaurants for worker pay and benefits in each sector of the...
15) Lunch witch: 1
Author
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
©2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The witch Grunhilda takes a job in an elementary school lunchroom.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Serving justice...and lunch! Hector, Terrence, and Dee have always wondered about their school lunch lady. What does she do when she isn't dishing out the daily special? Where does she live? Does she have a lot of cats at home? Little do they know, Lunch Lady doesn't just serve sloppy joes - she serves justice! Whatever danger lies ahead, it's no match for lunch lady in these two exciting adventures packed into one book! Get ready for the return...
17) Over easy
Author
Series
Over easy volume 1
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"After being denied financial aid to cover her last year of art school, Margaret finds salvation from the straightlaced world of college and the earnestness of both hippies and punks in the wisecracking, fast-talking, drug-taking Imperial Café" -- page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Over easy volume 2
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Late 70s. Oakland, a cheap and quirky haven for eccentrics, dreamers, junkies, and neer-do-wells. The 60s flower power dream has faded but the party rages on. Madge is working at the Imperial Caf̌ while trying to be a cartoonist for The National Lampoon. The lives of her coworkers are derailed by drugs and broken hearts as Madges ambition drives a wedge between her and those around her. Mimi Pond deftly captures the hyper-reality and melodrama of...
Author
Series
Lunch Lady volume 9
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tech gadgets are disappearing left and right at school, and Lunch Lady must get to the bottom of it! Presented in comic book format.
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