Wine Girl: A sommelier's tale of making it in the toxic world of fine dining
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- Synopsis
- An affecting memoir from America's youngest sommelier, tracing her path through the glamorous but famously toxic restaurant worldAt just twenty-one, Victoria James became America's youngest sommelier at a Michelin-starred restaurant. Even as Victoria was selling bottles worth hundreds and thousands of dollars during the day, passing sommelier certification exams with flying colors and receiving distinction from all kinds of press, there were still groping patrons, bosses who abused their role and status and a trip the hospital emergency room.It would take hitting bottom at a new restaurant and restorative trips to the vineyards where she could feel closest to the wine she loved for Victoria to re-emerge, clear-eyed and passionate, and a proud 'wine girl' of her own Michelin-starred restaurant.Exhilarating and inspiring, Wine Girl is the memoir of a young woman breaking free from an abusive and traumatic childhood on her own terms; an ethnography of the glittering, high-octane, but notoriously corrosive restaurant industry; and above all, a love letter to the restorative and life-changing effects of good wine and good hospitality.
- Copyright:
- 2020
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781405546775
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780349726267, 9780349726274, 9780349726250, 9780349726267, 9780349726274, 9780349726250
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Date of Addition:
- 09/07/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Victoria James
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Narrated By:
- Victoria James
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Cooking, Food and Wine
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.