Anthony Bourdain and Mario Batali’s assistant Laurie Woolever tells all, in a moving memoir of her own
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.
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Jim Gaffigan Weighs in on Friend Mario Batali's Sexual Harassment Allegations: 'We Should All Work on Forgiveness'
Gaffigan told Confidential he still has a positive opinion of Batali. “I love Mario,” Gaffigan said, praising “the generosity he showed to our family when my wife was in the hospital and ...
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Strippers, groping and being made to eat and drink to excess : Mario Batali’s assistant reveals all
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 go to a TV shoot. “Slide those thighs on over,” he told her.
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Bourdain and Batali’s Assistant Spills Some Secrets
She was Mario Batali’s assistant from 1999 to 2002 ... and of working as a woman, wife and mother in a wildly male-dominated industry. It’s also a reckoning with the high-risk behaviors ...