BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • The Dish: The Lives and Labor Behind One Plate of Food: A Vivid Exploration of Food and Community, Discover the Craft and Care Behind the Journey of a Single Meal

    (By Andrew Friedman)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 29 MB (29,088 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 696 times
    Last checked 16 Hour ago!
    Author Andrew Friedman
    “Book Descriptions: Acclaimed food writer Andrew Friedman follows one restaurant dish back to its origins, tracing every hand that's ever touched a meal to create a 360 degree look at our food supply through the lens of one dish.

    On a typical night, in a contemporary American restaurant in an emerging food city, a guest orders their dinner from a server. It's an exchange that happens hundreds of times a night in any restaurant--the core transaction that keeps the place churning. Yet this time, from the moment the guest orders the dish, acclaimed food writer Andrew Friedman follows its production via real-time reportage in the kitchen.

    As various components are readied, finished, fired (cooked for service), and plated, Friedman introduces readers to the players responsible for producing it, from line cooks and sous chefs to the chef who conceived the dish. Readers will also meet the producers, farmers, foragers, and ranchers, who supply the restaurant, as Friedman visits each stop in the supply chain and interviews the key characters whose labor plays an essential role in the creation of this one singular dish.

    The product is a rollicking ride inside every aspect of a restaurant dish, from the cooks who prepare it; to the farmers, foragers, fishermen, and ranchers who grow, harvest, and raise the ingredients; to the truck drivers who deliver the food to the restaurant and the dishwashers who clean the plates. Both a fascinating lens into the restaurant supply chain and the farm-to-table movement and a celebration of the unsung heroes of restaurants and the collaborative nature of restaurant work, The Dish will ensure readers will never look at a restaurant, cook, or farm the same way again.


    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir

    ★★★★★

    Steffanie Strathdee

    Book 1

    Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'

    ★★★★★

    Michael Cecchi-Azzolina

    Book 1

    Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

    ★★★★★

    Shahnaz Habib

    Book 1

    Hitchcock's Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession

    ★★★★★

    Laurence Leamer

    Book 1

    The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport

    ★★★★★

    Joshua Robinson

    Book 1

    MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios

    ★★★★★

    Joanna Robinson

    Book 1

    The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning

    ★★★★★

    A.J. Jacobs

    Book 1

    Undercooked: How I Let Food Become My Life Navigator and How Maybe That's a Dumb Way to Live

    ★★★★★

    Dan Ahdoot

    Book 1

    Peach Tea Smash (A Tea Shop Mystery, #28)

    ★★★★★

    Laura Childs

    Book 1

    Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance

    ★★★★★

    Alvin Hall

    Book 1

    Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

    ★★★★★

    Bianca Bosker

    Book 1

    Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

    ★★★★★

    Lisa Kaltenegger

    Book 1

    Endangered Eating: America's Vanishing Foods

    ★★★★★

    Sarah Lohman

    Book 1

    The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

    ★★★★★

    James Patterson

    Book 1

    Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World

    ★★★★★

    Will Cockrell

    Book 1

    Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell

    ★★★★★

    Sy Montgomery