Laurie Woolever: Care and Feeding, A Memoir

Laurie Woolever is back on the pod, four years since we last met
her to talk about the last book she wrote with the late, great
Anthony Bourdain.  


This time she’s telling her own story in Care and Feeding: A
Memoir which paints a vivid picture of a bright, sensitive woman
beset with anxiety trying to find her way into food writing in a
world of celebrity chefs and toxic masculinity in turn of the
century New York.


Her work as a food writer for chef, Mario Batali and at Art
Culinaire, the glossy magazine about chefs for chefs, gave her a
unique point of view on the food scene of the time, and as
personal assistant to Bourdain as well as his ghost writer, she’s
seen a lot of life.


This memoir feels like a claim on her own story in a narrative
that has been haunted by her much-missed boss long after he died
in 2018, and Gilly finds out where and who she is without him.


Pop over to Gilly's Substack for Extra Bites of Laurie.


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