{"id":3857,"date":"2014-02-11T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780385537438"},"modified":"2014-02-11T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T05:30:00","slug":"bread-and-butter-by-michelle-wildgen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/2014\/02\/11\/bread-and-butter-by-michelle-wildgen-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bread and Butter by Michelle Wildgen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780385537438\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/catalog_cover.pperl?9780385537438\" border=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780385537438\">Bread and Butter<\/a> <br \/><b>Written by<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/author\/results.pperl?authorid=169748\">Michelle Wildgen<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><b>Hardcover<\/b>, 336 pages | Doubleday | Fiction &#8211; Family Life; Fiction &#8211; Literary; Fiction &#8211; Humorous | <b>$25.95<\/b> | February 11, 2014 | 978-0-385-53743-8 (0-385-53743-3)<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Kitchen Confidential<\/i> meets <i>Three Junes<\/i> in this  mouthwatering novel about three brothers who run competing restaurants,  and the culinary snobbery, staff stealing, and secret affairs that  unfold in the back of the house.<\/b><\/p>\n<p> Britt and Leo have spent  ten years running Winesap, the best restaurant in their small  Pennsylvania town. They cater to their loyal customers; they don&#8217;t sleep  with the staff; and business is good, even if their temperamental  pastry chef is bored with making the same chocolate cake night after  night. But when their younger brother, Harry, opens his own restaurant&mdash;a  hip little joint serving an aggressive lamb neck dish&mdash;Britt and Leo  find their own restaurant thrown off-kilter. Britt becomes fascinated by  a customer who arrives night after night, each time with a different  dinner companion. Their pastry chef, Hector, quits, only to reappear at  Harry&#8217;s restaurant. And Leo finds himself falling for his executive  chef-tempted to break the cardinal rule of restaurant ownership. Filled  with hilarious insider detail&mdash;the one-upmanship of staff meals before  the shift begins, the rivalry between bartender and hostess, the seedy  bar where waitstaff and chefs go to drink off their workday&mdash;<i>Bread and Butter<\/i> is both an incisive novel of family and a gleeful romp through the inner workings of restaurant kitchens.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bread and Butter Written by Michelle WildgenHardcover, 336 pages | Doubleday | Fiction &#8211; Family Life; Fiction &#8211; Literary; Fiction &#8211; Humorous | $25.95 | February 11, 2014 | 978-0-385-53743-8 (0-385-53743-3)Kitchen Confidential meets Three Junes in this &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}