Product Description: The first authorized biography of "the mother of American cooking" (The New York Times) This adventurous book charts the origins of the local "market cooking" culture that we all savor today. When Francophile Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley in 1971, few Americans were familiar with goat cheese, cappuccino, or mesclun...read more

Product Description: Book by Kushi, Aveline, Jack, Alex

Tells McLamore's story of how he launched his enterprise, the struggles he has had to succeed in the face of stiff competition from McDonald's, and his personal relationship with McDonald's CEO (view table of contents)

The founder of Wendy's International uses anecdotes to reveal the secrets behind his success, offering his marketing and management principles and discussing the connection between family values and business strength. Reprint.

Product Description: The New York Times bestseller from the author of A Homemade Life and the blog Orangette about opening a restaurant with her new husband: “You’ll feel the warmth from this pizza oven...cheerfully honest...warm and inclusive, just like her cooking” (USA TODAY)...read more

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Product Description: David Novak—one of today’s most engaging, unconventional, and successful business leaders—lived in thirty-two trailer parks in twenty-three states by the time he reached the seventh grade. He sold encyclopedias door to door, worked as a hotel night clerk, and took a job as a $7,200-a-year advertising copywriter with the hopes of maybe one day becoming a creative director...read more

Product Description: David Novak—one of today’s most engaging, unconventional, and successful business leaders—lived in thirty-two trailer parks in twenty-three states by the time he reached the seventh grade. He sold encyclopedias door to door, worked as a hotel night clerk, and took a job as a $7,200-a-year advertising copywriter with the hopes of maybe one day becoming a creative director...read more

The founder of the McDonald's hamburger chain tells of his early business ventures and his success in developing a single restaurant in Illinois into an international operation

Presents profiles of well-known chefs, including Bobby Flay, Edna Lewis, and Rick Bayless, who share recipes and business tips

The owner of Uncle Jack's Steakhouse describes his blue-collar childhood in Queens, lack of educational opportunities, prison term for credit card fraud, determination to live an honest and profitable life, rise to a successful businessman, and professional philosophies.

Product Description: Book by Hayton-Keeva, Sally

Product Description: In her thought provoking autobiography, Mrs. Curatolo delightfully blends her recipes for success with satisfying delicious, homemade recipes of some of the most popular dishes in her restarants. Also, Mrs. Curatolo demonstrates through her life and through her actions that in order to succeed in life a person must never give up on making their dream a reality...read more

Profiles the prodigiously successful businessman and expert sportsman who founded the multimillion-dollar restaurant chain Benihana and whose sports pursuits include wrestling at world-class level, power-boat racing, ballooning, and undersea exploration

Product Description: Marilyn Lewis has been feeding and clothing the glitterati in Hollywood, Washington, D.C., and across the country for decades. First gaining fame as the glamorous helmstress (with husband Harry) of the legendary actors-serve-actors Hamburger Hamlet, Marilyn went on to become one of the first woman CEOs of a multi-million dollar company; designer of her own successful couture clothing line (Cardinali, dressing Marlo Thomas, Dionne Warwick, and Eydie Gorme among others); and most recently, producer of feature films on cultural icons Andy Warhol and Ayn Rand...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: McDonald's: it is the world's premier entrepreneurial success story, a company whose growth worldwide continues to be astonishing. In tough financial times, McDonald's proved that ingenuity, trial and error, and gut instinct were the keys to building a service business the entire world has come to admire...read more

For Julia Pandl, the rite of passage into young-adulthood included mandatory service at her family’s restaurant, where she watched as her father—who was also the chef—ruled with the strictness of a drill sergeant. At age twelve, Julie was initiated into the rite of the Sunday brunch, a weekly madhouse at her father’s Milwaukee-based restaurant, where she and her eight older siblings before her did service in a situation of controlled chaos, learning the ropes of the family business and, more important, learning life lessons that would shape them for all the years to come. In her wry memoir, she looks back on those formative years, a time not just of growing up but, ultimately, of becoming a source of strength and support as the world her father knew began to change into a tougher, less welcoming place. Part coming-of-age story a` la The Tender Bar, part win- dow into the mysteries of the restaurant business a` la Kitchen Confidential, Julie Pandl provides tender wisdom about the bonds between fathers and daughters and about the simple pleasures that lie in the daily ritual of breaking bread. This honest and exuberant memoir marks the debut of a writer who discovers that humor exists in even the smallest details of our lives and that the biggest moments we ever experience can happen behind the pancake station at the Sunday brunch.

Product Description: After being shut away for several years of his young life because of illness, Tom Harken made a promise to God, that he would never quit moving if He'd just set him free again. His prayers were answered then, and now he carries out that promise each and every day by never slowing down...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Both moving and entertaining, George Lang's absorbing autobiography draws the reader into an extraordinarily rich life filled with talent, wonder, and passion: an example of how torment can be transformed into beauty."—Elie Wiesel "A heartfelt, funny, moving story of survival...read more