<p><a href="http://lauriewoolever.com/about" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Laurie Woolever</a> is back on the pod, four years since we last met her to talk about the last book she wrote with the late, great <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/dining/anthony-bourdain-biography.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Anthony Bourdain. </a></p><br><p>This time she’s telling her own story in <a href="https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/care-and-feeding-a-memoir-laurie-woolever?variant=41825010057294" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Care and Feeding: A Memoir </em></a>which paints a vivid picture of a bright, sensitive woman beset with anxiety trying to find her way into food writing in a world of celebrity chefs and toxic masculinity in turn of the century New York.</p><br><p>Her work as a food writer for chef, <a href="https://www.delish.com/food-news/a46041426/mario-batali-livestream-rant/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mario Batali</a> and at <a href="https://artculinairemagazine.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Art Culinaire</a>, the glossy magazine about chefs for chefs, gave her a unique point of view on the food scene of the time, and as personal assistant to Bourdain as well as his ghost writer, she’s seen a lot of life.</p><br><p>This memoir feels like a claim on her own story in a narrative that has been haunted by her much-missed boss long after he died in 2018, and Gilly finds out where and who she is without him.</p><br><p>Pop over to <a href="https://gillysmith.substack.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gilly's Substack </a>for Extra Bites of Laurie.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
