Workhorse: My Sublime and Absurd Years in New York City's Restaurant Scene Reed Kim
Workhorse: My Sublime and Absurd Years in New York City's Restaurant Scene Reed Kim A razor-sharp look at one woman's nearly two decades in the New York City restaurant scene, including her time…
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Workhorse: My Sublime and Absurd Years in New York City's Restaurant Scene Reed Kim
A razor-sharp look at one woman's nearly two decades in the New York City restaurant scene, including her time working with Joe Bastianich, and what happens when your job consumes your life. By night, she scrambled into Manhattan to hostess at Babbo, where even the Pope would have had trouble scoring a reservation, and A-list celebrities squeezed through the jam-packed entryway like everyone else. By day, Kim Reed was a social worker to the homebound elderly in Brooklyn Heights.
Her training--problem solving, crisis intervention, dealing with unpredictable people and random situations--made her the ideal assistant for the volatile Joe Bastianich, a hard-partying, "What's next?" food and wine entrepreneur. Despite her whirlwind fifteen-hour workdays, Kim remained up to her eyeballs in grad school debt. He rose to fame in Italy as a TV star while Kim planned