03837cam a2200457 4500 1028424421 TxAuBib 20231101120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781452970127 1452970122 B0BYTXJHLB Amazon 55d4d784-e139-4073-b042-c0bcf2ddcef8 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9703936 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Batt, Matthew. The Last Supper Club [Libby eBook] : A Waiter's Requiem. University of Minnesota Press, 2023. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 501kB. Food & Wine Best Restaurants in America. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Surly Brewing Company. kitchen confidential. james beard nominee. The Brewer's Table. anthony bourdain. Jorge Guzman. fine dining. the bear. surly. HTML:<p><b>A witty and humble tribute to the sometimes profane, sometimes profound world of waiting tables</b><br /> During a year on sabbatical from his university position, Matthew Batt realized he needed money—fast—and it just so happened that one of the biggest breweries in the Midwest was launching a restaurant and looking to hire. So it was that the forty-something tenured professor found himself waiting tables at a high-end restaurant situated in a Minneapolis brewery. And loving it.</p> <p>Telling the story of Batt's early work in restaurants, from a red sauce joint possibly run by the mob to an ill-conceived fusion concept eatery, <i>The Last Supper Club</i> then details his experiences at the fine dining restaurant, a job that continued well past his sabbatical—that lasted, in fact, right up to the restaurant's sudden and unceremonious closing three years later, shortly after it was named one of the best restaurants in the country by <i>Food &amp; Wine</i>.</p> <p>Batt's memoir conveys the challenge—and the satisfaction—of meeting the demands of a frenzied kitchen and an equally expectant crowd. Through training mishaps, disastrous encounters with confused diners, struggles to keep pace with far more experienced coworkers, mandatory memorizations of laundry lists of obscure ingredients, and the stress of balancing responsibilities at home and at work, <i>The Last Supper Club</i> reveals the ups and downs of a waiter's workday and offers an insightful perspective on what makes a job good, bad, or great. For Batt, this job turns out to be considerably more fun, and possibly more rewarding, than his academic career, and his insider's view of waiting tables extols the significance of our food and the places where we gather to enjoy it—or serve it.</p> <p>Told with sharp humor, humility, and a keen sense of what matters, <i>The Last Supper Club</i> is an ode to life in a high-pressure restaurant, the relationships that get you to the night's close, and finding yourself through—or perhaps because of—the chaos of it all.</p>. Biography & Autobiography. Cooking & Food. Nonfiction. Science. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-10-31 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=55d4d784-e139-4073-b042-c0bcf2ddcef8&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=55d4d784-e139-4073-b042-c0bcf2ddcef8&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=55d4d784-e139-4073-b042-c0bcf2ddcef8&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)