Your Table is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maitre D' (Michael Cecchi-Azzolina) shellfish holiday tortes and cakes

holiday tortes and cakes

A thorough buyer’s guide lists top producers and profiles the very best bodegas and wines

family journals

savory pies

With illustrated step-by-step recipes for handmaking forty of the most versatile pasta shapes and one hundred recipes for Italian-American

Your Table is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maitre D' (Michael Cecchi-Azzolina) shellfish holiday tortes and cakesA front of the house Kitchen Confidential from a career matre dhotel who manned the front of the room in New York City's hottest and most in demand restaurants. From the glamorous to the entitled, from royalty to the financially ruined, everyone who wanted to be seenor just to gawkat the hottest restaurants in New York City came to places Michael Cecchi Azzolina helped run. His phone number was passed around among those who wanted to curry favor,