Your Table is Ready

Today's review is for Your Table is Ready by Michael Cecchi-Azzolina. I picked up this book because I saw it on someone's "To Read" list and I enjoy foodie/restaurant type books. This was a good, not great, read. It was great fun seeing names of chefs and restauranteurs that I recognized from watching (probably too many) food competition shows and reading the author's descriptions and impressions of them. One definitely gains a new respect for those who run food establishments and those who serve in them. With all the shenanigans described by the author, it's amazing that so many are successful at all.

I have no doubt that all kinds of debauchery took place during the time period described by the author, but again - repetitious - I received the message the first time or two. The storytelling was a bit disjointed in places as the author tried to connect the present with his past, a bit of editing might have fixed this. Definitely a well-informed peek behind the curtain of the food industry, but now I'm happy to let the curtain fall back into place.