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Aduchamp1 Nov 18th, 2007 01:11 PM

Book about Per Se
 
In the NY Times Book Review today there is a review of a book about Per Se, written by a woman who worked there as a server. The review notes that religious characteristics are ascribed to Thomas Keller but to create an atmosphere of egalitarianism everyone, regardless of their position, is called chef. Everything seems to be done to extremes, the servers know the names of the cows that produced the butter. "Hello my name is Daisy and I will be your server tonight and this is my friend Elsie."

kealalani Nov 18th, 2007 01:29 PM

Please tell me I can find this in the humour section of Barnes and Noble and not the tell all section!!! LOL!

iamq Nov 18th, 2007 01:29 PM

One of the butters that was served to us when we had lunch at the French Laundry came from a dairy in Vermont that produces butter only for Keller. We thought he was joking when our server said he knew the name of the cow that produced the butter we were eating. He wasn't joking.

kealalani Nov 18th, 2007 01:32 PM

iamq
I bet you a dinner at PerSe that you giggled your ass off when the waiter turned his back and then said, "Mooooo!"

iamq Nov 18th, 2007 01:45 PM

Actually we were the ones that let out a sustained Moooooo in unison!3:-O

Aduchamp1 Nov 18th, 2007 03:25 PM

"Hello my name is Daisy and I will be your server tonight and this is my friend Elsie."

Sorry gang, that was my joke. It was truthful, though, the server knows the name of the cow.

cigalechanta Nov 18th, 2007 04:57 PM

MOO! Yes, I read it this morn in my paper but you can read it here on line.

http://tinyurl.com/2fk6o2

It's free to also sign up. Today's book reviews were on Steve Martin, Woody Allen, Alice Roosevelt and Hunter Thompson...and so much more :)

kealalani Nov 29th, 2007 07:28 PM

thanks so much for sharing. I purchased it today and loved the first few pages I read.


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