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While Mrs B has gone out to get her remaining steps in for the day (1400 - 700 out, 700 back, not a step more! 👣😄), I'm staying in with a book, wild garlic Cornish Yarg cheese & a splash of wine 📖🧀🍷
We spent some time today at the Pili Palas, a small nature park with a heated room, where the free-flying tropical butterflies are magical. I had a hand-sized brilliant blue butterfly settle for a few seconds on my nose, which was amazing! 💖🦋💖

She‘s not drunk — she‘s had
only four half bottles of
wine — wine helps her drink! 🍷

#haikuhive #haikuaday #poetry #bobsburgers #lindabelcher #tvhaiku #itswineoclocksomewhere

I love food writing and food memoirs. I didn‘t know what ‘cellar rat‘ meant before reading this book. My knowledge about wine is limited, but I enjoy cooking with it and like to have a glass sometimes. Here, the author shares her entire journey within the restaurant world, from beginning to end. Revealing layers of rampant abuse, it made me wonder about all the places I‘ve eaten, and will eat in. Food industry workers don‘t get the⬇️

This would've been a good book if the author had focused exclusively on the arson case. It seemed as if she didn't have enough material to write exclusively on the arson, so she also wrote about everything else, spending two-thirds of the book writing about the entire history of the wine region. She should have stuck to the arson story, even if it meant writing a long article instead of a book. #2025Book21

To asses your own value—to determine whether you were worthy by the metrics determined by a restaurant—you had to set aside everything else. You didn‘t have to be a good person to be good at restaurant work. You didn‘t have to be nice, or forgiving, or ethical, or kind. You only had to be willing to show up and dig into the work that was before you, even if that work was brutal and unfair and traumatic and mean. You did this all, much of the⤵️

Cellar rat is the colloquial term used in the industry to describe the people who spend time stocking the wine cellar. It was where my wine education officially began. 🍷🍇🥂

Fascinating, a bit slow in places, but if you are a wine lover or interested in the history of wine, this book may be right for you. Following the wine tasting that changed the world of wine, this looks at the history of California wine and what happened when they beat the best French wines in France in 1976. I savored this one! #Doublespin #BookspinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

I love a food industry memoir. And this was a great one! Hannah‘s writing is engaging from the first paragraph and the only thing I found myself skimming were the recipes (some of which I want to make…someday).

In this memoir, Hannah recounts how she fell in love with restaurants, rose through the ranks to become a sommelier, but the industry continuously broke her heart.

Read it!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #arc Pub Date: 3/25/25

2⭐. It's hard to like the characters.

Reading next for my movie/book club. So far it's just ehh.