463627 Sun Nov 25 18:14:27 -0800 2007 5 33 Food Media and News 0 3154025 I need to know about all the books by and about servers (at least the ones about service, as I'd imagine plenty of servers are also authors of other things). Can y'all help me think of titles and I can go from there? Thanks! Sun Nov 25 18:14:27 -0800 2007 46777 ctscorp 1 3154177 I recommend the book "Waiting - True Confessions of a Waitress," the book is extremely funny. Sun Nov 25 19:24:47 -0800 2007 3154025 145554 pazki 2 3154281 That's the one that popped into my mind, too. I read it about eight years ago and still recall laughing aloud about the antics of various waitstaffs. Sun Nov 25 20:30:18 -0800 2007 3154177 56490 foxy fairy 1 3154427 - Phoebe Damrosch's "Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter" - Not all about servers / serving, but in that line, "Hotel Bemelmans" by Ludwig Bemelman - An oral history collection, "Hey, Waitress! The USA from the Other Side of the Tray" by Alison Owings - A book for servers, "Clam Chowder: The Server's Field Manual" by Matt Lehman - Comic essays, for the most part, "Waiter: The Humor and Pathos Beyond the Plate" by Matthew Foster - Some practical / advice / how-to books, "The Waiting Game" by Kirkham - "At Your Service" by the Culinary Institute of America - "Lessons in Service from Charlie Trotter" by Ed Lawler and Charlie Trotter I've not read it, but "Dishing it Out: Power and Resistance Among Waitresses in a New Jersey Restaurant" by Greta Paules looks interesting. Same for "Tips, the Server's Guide to Bringing Home the Bacon" by Spencer, "Dishing it Out: Waitresses and their Unions in the Twentieth Century" by Cobble, "Service with a Smile" by Karvelas. But the book that first came to mind was "Waiting" by Debra Ginsberg (also recommended up-thread by pazki and foxy fairy). Sun Nov 25 22:09:25 -0800 2007 3154025 58039 ElsieDee 1 3155108 Part of Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed" is about waitressing. Mon Nov 26 08:59:50 -0800 2007 3154025 138816 jlafler 1 3155119 ruth reichl writes about her early serving jobs in a few of her memoirs. for a very non fine-dining take, the section about serving at a working-class diner in "nickel and dimed" by barbara ehrenreich Mon Nov 26 09:03:36 -0800 2007 3154025 46030 soupkitten