Setting the Table

Author: Danny Meyer
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061868248
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
The bestselling business book from award-winning restauranteur Danny Meyer, of Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, and Shake Shack Seventy-five percent of all new restaurant ventures fail, and of those that do stick around, only a few become icons. Danny Meyer started Union Square Cafe when he was 27, with a good idea and hopeful investors. He is now the co-owner of a restaurant empire. How did he do it? How did he beat the odds in one of the toughest trades around? In this landmark book, Danny shares the lessons he learned developing the dynamic philosophy he calls Enlightened Hospitality. The tenets of that philosophy, which emphasize strong in-house relationships as well as customer satisfaction, are applicable to anyone who works in any business. Whether you are a manager, an executive, or a waiter, Danny’s story and philosophy will help you become more effective and productive, while deepening your understanding and appreciation of a job well done. Setting the Table is landmark a motivational work from one of our era’s most gifted and insightful business leaders.

Setting the Table

Author: Danny Meyer
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Corporation
ISBN: 9780462099255
Category : Restaurant management
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
The inspiring story and guide to becoming successful by one of the world's leading restauranteurs - now in paperback. Successful entrepreneur from the cut-throat restaurant business tells all - the business equivalent to Kitchen Confidential. Danny Meyer's approach is the direct opposite of received business wisdom - and it clearly works! Essential and inspiring reading for anyone interested in setting up their own business. Engaging and full of lessons - hardback edition selected by Management Today magazine as one of the best business books published in 2007 From an award-winning restauranteur comes an intimate and inspirational portrait of business well done, with hands-on advice, enlightening anecdotes, and the fascinating story of staggering success in one of the world's most unforgiving arenas. Danny Meyer is the CEO of the Union Square Hospitality Group and co-owner of eleven critically acclaimed establishments in New York, including his first, the Union Square Café, which came second in the Zagat Survey 2006 only because his Gramercy Tavern was number one. 'Any restauranteur, for that matter any businessperson or entrepreneur, should read this book. Danny Meyer runs a great business and this is a terrific book!' - Gordon Ramsay. 'Danny Meyer's marvelous book is not just about restaurants, but about how to really learn a business...... This book is full of wisdom for entrepreneurs, and for every manager' - Prof. Michael Porter, Havard Business School.

The Set Table

Author: Hannah Shuckburgh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908714046
Category : Table setting and decoration
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Bohemian ideas and inspiration that set the scene for lively, intimate meals with friends and loved ones.

The Art of the Table

Author: Suzanne Von Drachenfels
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684847329
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 598

Book Description
"Home Comforts" meets Miss Manners in this elegant, comprehensive guide to the table -- an invaluable resource for every aspect of formal and informal dining and entertainment. 130 line drawings throughout. 16 pages of color photos.

Tablescapes: Setting the Table with Style

Author: Kimberly J. Schlegel Whitman
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 142361397X
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
In Tablescapes: Setting the Table with Style and Flair, socialite, high-end event planner, and consummate hostess Kimberly Schlegel Whitman shows how to set the stage for special-occasion meals by setting a beautifully creative table with flair and panache. Featuring some of the most exquisite china, silver, and crystal, Whitman shows how she develops decorating themes appropriate for any occasion-from sit-down dinners for a few guests or buffets for many, to bridal and baby showers, holiday dinners with the family, and al fresco parties at the beach. Personalized table coverings are one of her specialties, and this book has a plethora of ideas.

The Table Comes First

Author: Adam Gopnik
Publisher: Knopf Canada
ISBN: 0307399036
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Book Description
Transplanted Canadian, New Yorker writer and author of Paris to the Moon, Gopnik is publishing this major new work of narrative non-fiction alongside his 2011 Massey Lecture. An illuminating, beguiling tour of the morals and manners of our present food manias, in search of eating's deeper truths, asking "Where do we go from here?" Never before have so many North Americans cared so much about food. But much of our attention to it tends towards grim calculation (what protein is best? how much?); social preening ("I can always score the last reservation at xxxxx"); or graphic machismo ("watch me eat this now"). Gopnik shows we are not the first food fetishists but we are losing sight of a timeless truth, "the table comes first": what goes on around the table matters as much to life as what we put on the table: families come together (or break apart) over the table, conversations across the simplest or grandest board can change the world, pain and romance unfold around it--all this is more essential to our lives than the provenance of any zucchini or the road it travelled to reach us. Whatever dilemmas we may face as omnivores, how not what we eat ultimately defines our society. Gathering people and places drawn from a quarter century's reporting in North America and France, The Table Comes First marks the beginning a new conversation about the way we eat now.

Set the Table

Author: That Patchwork Place
Publisher: Martingale
ISBN: 1604683228
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 149

Book Description
With inspiration and zest, a host of talented quilters bring a smorgasbord of exciting projects to the table! Enjoy stunning graphic designs by Natalie Barnes, Audrie Bidwell, Josee Carrier, Jenifer Dick, Amy Ellis, Heather Jones, Thomas Knauer, Jessica Levitt, Angela Walters, and Candi Weinrick. Feast your eyes on 11 tantalizing quilt runners ranging from modern to traditional--a great value Try new techniques and color palettes on small projects that require a minimal investment of time and fabric Discover how a simple accent can give your decor a big lift

Gathering

Author: Kristen Caissie
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847863700
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
This beautiful volume celebrates entertaining and decorating in a meaningful and personal way, by integrating florals and artisanal handmade objects--whether it's porcelain, flatware, glassware, vases, or textiles--into tabletop designs. Gathering showcases creative tabletop ideas and styles for all seasons. These stylish interiors feature local, artisanal floral designs and handmade objects, capturing the current trend of living and decorating more mindfully and with one-of-a-kind objects. Exploring every aspect of tabletop design, with setting ideas for different seasons and situations, this volume presents tabletops in situ in a range of stylish spaces designed by the creatives and artists who live there (and sometimes who are the makers themselves). From rustic country living to urban eco-chic, what these beautiful interiors have in common is a desire to bring nature indoors and an intentional and personal approach to design. Full of inspiring tabletop ideas, Gathering shows how different pieces and floral arrangements work well together, merging into lovely tabletop designs where beauty and authenticity exist in every detail. Paired with beautiful on-location photography, these pages showcase simple luxury living, embodied by this conscious approach to design, that hosts and hostesses everywhere will appreciate.

My Place At The Table

Author: Alexander Lobrano
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1328585212
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 259

Book Description
In this debut memoir, a James Beard Award–winning writer, whose childhood idea of fine dining was Howard Johnson’s, tells how he became one of Paris’s most influential food critics Until Alec Lobrano landed a job in the glamorous Paris office of Women’s Wear Daily, his main experience of French cuisine was the occasional supermarket éclair. An interview with the owner of a renowned cheese shop for his first article nearly proves a disaster because he speaks no French. As he goes on to cover celebrities and couturiers and improves his mastery of the language, he gradually learns what it means to be truly French. He attends a cocktail party with Yves St. Laurent and has dinner with Giorgio Armani. Over a superb lunch, it’s his landlady who ultimately provides him with a lasting touchstone for how to judge food: “you must understand the intentions of the cook.” At the city’s brasseries and bistros, he discovers real French cooking. Through a series of vivid encounters with culinary figures from Paul Bocuse to Julia Child to Ruth Reichl, Lobrano hones his palate and finds his voice. Soon the timid boy from Connecticut is at the epicenter of the Parisian dining revolution and the restaurant critic of one of the largest newspapers in the France. A mouthwatering testament to the healing power of food, My Place at the Table is a moving coming-of-age story of how a gay man emerges from a wounding childhood, discovers himself, and finds love. Published here for the first time is Lobrano’s “little black book,” an insider’s guide to his thirty all-time-favorite Paris restaurants.

Table Settings

Author: James Symonds
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN: 9781842172988
Category : Archaeology and history
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Fernand Braudel famously observed that the 'mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization'. The way that food is prepared, served, and eaten reveals a great deal about the structure and workings of any society. It is therefore not surprising that food, and the culturally specific etiquettes and equipment that surround the act of eating have been studied by scholars from a wide range of disciplines. The papers in this volume consider the changes that occurred in Old and New World dining and related culinary activities between the 17th century and the early 20th century. This period saw the widespread acceptance of the fork in dining and the adoption of routinized etiquettes to govern eating. In the 18th century the rise of individualism ushered in new forms of segmented dining based upon symmetrically arranged tables and individual place settings. Against this backdrop of manufactured uniformity, made possible by advances in industrial production, highly stylized dining rituals and haute cuisine, which had previously been the exclusive domain of European courtly elites, entered the homes and routines of the 'middling sort'. Henceforth, material expressions of status and social identity became commonplace at the table, and an integral part of dining in all but the humblest homes. The unique contribution of this volume lies in the way in which a distinguished group of international historical archaeologists have combined the richness of primary archaeological evidence with a wealth of documentary evidence to create insightful new material histories of dining. The new light which this throws upon manufacturing processes, feasting rituals, the rise of respectability, the inter-continental spread of the Victorian cult of domesticity, and foodways among peripheral agricultural communities will be of interest to scholars beyond archaeology, in the cognate fields of anthropology, social and economic history, cultural geography, and material culture studies.