A look at one woman’s nearly two decades in the New York City restaurant, including her time working with Joe Bastianich, and what happens when your job consumes your life.
Reed’s matter-of-fact memoir features tempting sides of Italian food, fashion, and wine. Her book’s main course is not only the ride-or-die job; it’s also a meditation on approaching midlife and the need for true friendship and love.
Reed’s down-to-earth memoir is a wistful insider’s view of working in a high-powered restaurant job in New York. It will be popular among foodies and fans of business histories.
The fashion-magazine setting, the clicking of high heels, the dropping of designer names will be familiar to fans of Lauren Weisberger’s The Devil Wears Prada (2003), but Workhorse is a far darker tale and invites comparisons to a different malefactor: the talented Mr. Ripley ... Workhorse is far longer than it needs to be. That goes double for Clo’s self-loathing, self-justifying interior monologues. But Ms. Palmer nails the details of life at a fashion magazine
