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Weekend Book Giveaway: Service Included

Posted by Ed Levine, October 13, 2007

Besides picking up the last of the season's tomatoes and some fresh-picked apples at your local farmers' market, you have something else to do this weekend: Try to win one of ten copies of Phoebe Damrosch's entertaining, wryly revealing memoir, Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter. It's a breezy read anchored by Damrosch's acute observations, semiserious tips on how to get the most out of a four-star restaurant experience (she was a waiter at Thomas Kelle's Per Se in New York), and her self-deprecating wit. What's the book about? I'll let Damrosch tell you. This is from the introduction:

After I left Per Se, a former colleague passed along a story that the chef told the staff. If you want to understand commitment, he explained, all you have to do is look at the American breakfast of bacon and eggs. The chicken was involved, but the pig was committed.
This is a book about commitment: to food, service, love, perfection, and to being the bacon.

If you want to have a chance of bringing home the bacon (I mean the book) just tell us the funniest thing you've overheard at a restaurant.

Winners will be chosen at random from among the comments, and the contest will close Monday at 6 p.m. ET. The usual Serious Eats contest rules apply.

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