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PX This - The Revised Edition (Diary Of The "Maitre D' To The Stars")

PX This. (Diary of the “Maître d’ to the Stars”), by Abbe Diaz, is the witty, irreverent (star-studded) four-year diary of a struggling artist/fashion-designer moonlighting as a maître d’ at some of Manhattan’s most renowned restaurants. It is a humorous, poignant, and uniquely insightful romp through the nightly playgrounds of some of New York’s (and Hollywood’s) most glamorous and elite, as viewed from the front podium.You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! It’s “the bible of the [NYC fine-dining Food and Beverage] industry.”• “Restaurateur Jean-Georges Vongerichten is so annoyed by the success of his former Maitre D’ Abbe Diaz’s new tell-all book, he is forcing his employees to sign confidentiality agreements. They were also banned from discussing [the book] at work.” - The New York Post• “Per Variety, ‘Daily Show’ correspondents Jason Jones and Samantha Bee have inked a deal with CBS to write and star in a sitcom about a celebrity chef and the two women who run his empire… [But] it turns out… Abbe Diaz has spent over a year shopping a treatment based on her own book… assuming the producers can find someone fierce enough to play the role of Diaz." - New York Magazine• “… [Abbe Diaz] kept a diary in which she vented all her frustration — and named names.” - msn.com• “… that’s YOUR book? Great… it’s about time somebody wrote a book like that…” - Bobby Flay• “I liked your book. I always knew [withheld] was like that… I’m just glad it wasn’t me!” - Drew Nieporent• “…[My book] will be nothing like your book…” - John deLucie, Chef/Author, The Hunger

File Size: 2179 KB

Print Length: 468 pages

Publication Date: September 29, 2010

Sold by:  Digital Services LLC

Language: English

ASIN: B00452VG34

Text-to-Speech: Enabled

X-Ray: Enabled

Word Wise: Enabled

Lending: Enabled

Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #603,435 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store) #133 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Business & Money > Industries > Restaurant & Food #252 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Humor > Cooking #394 in Books > Business & Money > Industries > Restaurant & Food

I loved this book, but here's the thing-- I have been swayed by enough fake reviews on that I hardly ever bother to read the glowing 5-STAR ones anymore. For that same reason, I never post reviews either, because if I love something that much I figured nobody would ever believe me, and I never hated anything enough to trash it online for all the world to base their decisions on. (For whatever it's worth, I distrust Yelp too.)But after I read the 1-STAR reviews about this book, I just had to do it this time. Because those bad reviews are obviously all fake, I am kind of appalled that they are even allowed in the first place.Since I work in the restaurant industry, I have known about PX This for a long time. And like the reviewer King P, I also worked for Jean-Georges's company, but at different times and places than Abbe Diaz did. Much like Bourdain's well known Kitchen Confidential, so many of my friends and co-workers talked about this PX This, I guess it felt like I already read it. But I just happened to stumble across a mention of this book recently which reminded me of it, so I decided after so many years to give it a try. And I am so glad I did!My own personal experiences with "Loser" are nothing compared to what Abbe describes, probably because I'm a server and whenever I saw our crazy and inept Director of Operations, I just ran in the other direction. I was completely oblivious to the full extent of Loser's depravity until reading Abbe's hilarious account of her front desk and office exploits.

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