02239cam a2200265 4500 1957967710 TxAuBib 20250224120000.0 240720s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780063327603 HRD 28.99 0063327600 HRD 28.99 TxAuBib Woolever, Laurie,. Care and feeding : a memoir / Laurie Woolever. Hardcover First edition. New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2025] xi, 334 pages ; 24 cm. A candid, funny, and occasionally devastating memoir of a woman making her way through the food world, navigating addiction, a cultural reckoning, and an unexpected tragedy In this moving, hilarious, and insightful memoir, Laurie Woolever traces her path from a small-town childhood to working at revered restaurants and food publications, alternately bolstered and overshadowed by two of the most powerful men in the business. But there’s more to the story than the two bold-faced names on her resume: Mario Batali and Anthony Bourdain. Behind the scenes, Laurie’s life is frequently chaotic, an often pleasurable buffet of bad decisions at which she frequently overstays her welcome. Acerbic and wryly self-deprecating, Laurie attempts to carve her own space as a woman in this world that is by turns toxic and intoxicating. Laurie seeks to try it all—from a seedy Atlantic City strip club to the Park Hyatt Tokyo, from a hippie vegetarian co-op to the legendary El Bulli—while balancing her consuming work with her sometimes ambivalent relationship to marriage and motherhood. As the food world careens toward an overdue reckoning and Laurie’s mentors face their own high-profile descents, she is confronted with the questions of where she belongs and how to hold on to the parts of her life’s work that she truly values: care and feeding. 20250301. jz. Woolever, Laurie. Women food writers United States Biography. Women cooks United States Biography. Biographies.