On her first day working as Mario Batali’s assistant in 1999, Laurie Woolever, then 25, got in a cab with the famous chef to ...

She’ll talk about it all at Brookline Booksmith alongside restaurateur Tiffani Faison on Friday, March 21. We chatted about the book in advance of the event.

Working for Mario Batali meant being a wingman, a punching bag, and a voracious lush who rarely said “no.” ...

She was Mario Batali’s assistant from 1999 to 2002, and Anthony Bourdain’s assistant, working closely on his books and television shows, from 2009 until his death in 2018. Her new memoir ...

Care and Feeding, by Laurie Woolever Woolever has spent decades immersed in the culinary world, at various times as a ...

Bourdain then encouraged Woolever to share her own experience with chef Mario Batali. Anthony Bourdain’s Assistant Laurie Woolever Reveals His Eerie Final Texts to Her in Emotional Memoir ...

A decade after accusations against the chef Mario Batali ushered in the #MeToo era in the fine dining world, blowing the lid off years of industrywide abusive behavior, two memoirs lift up the ...

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP/REX/Shutterstock (9203697h) Mario Batali attends the Food Bank For New York City Can-Do Awards Dinner at Cipriani ...

It even made me forget Del Posto, Mario Batali’s Italian palace that was there first for sixteen golden years until it closed in 2021 in the wake of sexual assault allegations against the ...

Before that, it was home to Otto Enoteca Pizzeria from the exiled Mario Batali for nearly 20 years. With a cameo in the movie Casino, Golden Steer was where Tony Spilotro, or “Tony the Ant” as ...