Chef Tom Schaudel provides a playful romp through the crazy world of restaurants, dining rooms, and professional kitchens
LONG ISLAND, N.Y., Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- After working in the restaurant industry for 50 years and owning various restaurants, like Kingfish, Alure, and aMano in New York, there's likely a stockpile of hilarious and unbelievable stories that took place, both in the kitchens and the dining rooms.
In his new book, "A Second Helping: Whining and Dining on Long Island," that's exactly what Chef Tom Schaudel dishes up. A follow up to his popular first book, "Playing with Fire," Chef Schaudel serves even more short stories of neurotic customers, stressed out servers, crazed cooks, and the undeniably unhinged.
"I wrote this a follow-up to my first book which was about my one hundred worst or wackiest customers," said Schaudel. "Seeing that there was no shortage of talent out there, I had another eighty or so stories to tell, and I wrote it to make people laugh."
Looking back through his long and successful career, Chef Shaudel assembled a cast of characters that would be the envy of fiction writers everywhere. His book introduces readers to true stories of an f-bombing octogenarian, a D-level celebrity asking for separate checks at her wedding, an aspiring counterfeiter with a seriously flawed gift certificate, the nine-year-old antichrist, and a woman who flushed a six-carat diamond ring down a toilet bowl.
"There's no moral or intellectual condescension, no judgement, or malice here, and therefore it's okay to laugh," said Schaudel. "This book serves to give ordinary folks a peek behind the restaurant curtain and see what the people who work them suffer on a daily basis."
"A Second Helping: Whining and Dining on Long Island"
By Tom Schaudel
ISBN: 9781663240118 (softcover); 9781663233882 (electronic)
Available at iUniverse, Amazon and Barnes & Noble
About the author
After working in restaurants since the age of 15, graduating from the Culinary Institute of America in 1973, and training under accomplished chefs, Tom Schaudel opened his first restaurant in 1983. Since then, he has been the driving force behind several acclaimed Long Island, N.Y. restaurants. He also has his own line of wines, made on Long Island, under the Tom Schaudel "Reserve" label, sold at his restaurants and at the winery. To learn more, please visit http://www.tomschaudelchef.com.
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