Advance Praise for Hotbox
–Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book
–Bill Buford, best-selling author of Heat
–Tom Colicchio
You're only as good as your last soufflé.
–Sean DriscollAbout HOTBOX
We’re so excited to introduce you to our new book, Hotbox!
We took a detour from writing southern cookbooks to work as ten-dollar-an-hour kitchen assistants at a catering firm. For cooks like these, every night is a different menu in a different setting. And the number of guests regularly reaches into the thousands. Even when millions of dollars are spent on the décor, behind the scenes there’s rarely running water, electricity, or HVAC. The catering “kitchen” is typically a freezing-cold loading dock that was empty at 3pm when load-in began, and needs to be swept clean again by midnight. Every night is a traveling circus of perishables. As you might imagine, it’s a wild world, with its own rules and customs.
What is a hotbox? It’s the aluminum cabinet on wheels that holds all the food, transported from the caterer’s prep kitchen to the party; once onsite, it becomes an oven where the food finishes cooking…over many little cans of Sterno. Scary? You bet!
We hope you enjoy Hotbox. The way Bill Buford’s Heat, Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential and Gabrielle Hamilton’s Blood, Bones, and Butter made readers restaurant insiders, Hotbox will make you an expert on catered parties—how they work, what’s at stake in the kitchen, and how the food adds (and sometimes subtracts) from the celebration. You’ll never throw a party or attend one the same way again!
Tour Schedule
Advance Praise for Hotbox
–Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book
–Bill Buford, best-selling author of Heat
–Tom Colicchio
You're only as good as your last soufflé.
–Sean DriscollAbout HOTBOX
We’re so excited to introduce you to our new book, Hotbox!
We took a detour from writing southern cookbooks to work as ten-dollar-an-hour kitchen assistants at a catering firm. For cooks like these, every night is a different menu in a different setting. And the number of guests regularly reaches into the thousands. Even when millions of dollars are spent on the décor, behind the scenes there’s rarely running water, electricity, or HVAC. The catering “kitchen” is typically a freezing-cold loading dock that was empty at 3pm when load-in began, and needs to be swept clean again by midnight. Every night is a traveling circus of perishables. As you might imagine, it’s a wild world, with its own rules and customs.
What is a hotbox? It’s the aluminum cabinet on wheels that holds all the food, transported from the caterer’s prep kitchen to the party; once onsite, it becomes an oven where the food finishes cooking…over many little cans of Sterno. Scary? You bet!
We hope you enjoy Hotbox. The way Bill Buford’s Heat, Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential and Gabrielle Hamilton’s Blood, Bones, and Butter made readers restaurant insiders, Hotbox will make you an expert on catered parties—how they work, what’s at stake in the kitchen, and how the food adds (and sometimes subtracts) from the celebration. You’ll never throw a party or attend one the same way again!
Tour Schedule
Advance Praise for Hotbox
–Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book
–Bill Buford, best-selling author of Heat
–Tom Colicchio
You're only as good as your last soufflé.
–Sean DriscollAbout HOTBOX
We’re so excited to introduce you to our new book, Hotbox!
We took a detour from writing southern cookbooks to work as ten-dollar-an-hour kitchen assistants at a catering firm. For cooks like these, every night is a different menu in a different setting. And the number of guests regularly reaches into the thousands. Even when millions of dollars are spent on the décor, behind the scenes there’s rarely running water, electricity, or HVAC. The catering “kitchen” is typically a freezing-cold loading dock that was empty at 3pm when load-in began, and needs to be swept clean again by midnight. Every night is a traveling circus of perishables. As you might imagine, it’s a wild world, with its own rules and customs.
What is a hotbox? It’s the aluminum cabinet on wheels that holds all the food, transported from the caterer’s prep kitchen to the party; once onsite, it becomes an oven where the food finishes cooking…over many little cans of Sterno. Scary? You bet!
We hope you enjoy Hotbox. The way Bill Buford’s Heat, Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential and Gabrielle Hamilton’s Blood, Bones, and Butter made readers restaurant insiders, Hotbox will make you an expert on catered parties—how they work, what’s at stake in the kitchen, and how the food adds (and sometimes subtracts) from the celebration. You’ll never throw a party or attend one the same way again!
Tour Schedule
Advance Praise for Hotbox
–Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book
–Bill Buford, best-selling author of Heat
–Tom Colicchio
You're only as good as your last soufflé.
–Sean DriscollAbout HOTBOX
We’re so excited to introduce you to our new book, Hotbox!
We took a detour from writing southern cookbooks to work as ten-dollar-an-hour kitchen assistants at a catering firm. For cooks like these, every night is a different menu in a different setting. And the number of guests regularly reaches into the thousands. Even when millions of dollars are spent on the décor, behind the scenes there’s rarely running water, electricity, or HVAC. The catering “kitchen” is typically a freezing-cold loading dock that was empty at 3pm when load-in began, and needs to be swept clean again by midnight. Every night is a traveling circus of perishables. As you might imagine, it’s a wild world, with its own rules and customs.
What is a hotbox? It’s the aluminum cabinet on wheels that holds all the food, transported from the caterer’s prep kitchen to the party; once onsite, it becomes an oven where the food finishes cooking…over many little cans of Sterno. Scary? You bet!
We hope you enjoy Hotbox. The way Bill Buford’s Heat, Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential and Gabrielle Hamilton’s Blood, Bones, and Butter made readers restaurant insiders, Hotbox will make you an expert on catered parties—how they work, what’s at stake in the kitchen, and how the food adds (and sometimes subtracts) from the celebration. You’ll never throw a party or attend one the same way again!
Tour Schedule
Advance Praise for Hotbox
–Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book
–Bill Buford, best-selling author of Heat
–Tom Colicchio
You're only as good as your last soufflé.
–Sean DriscollAbout HOTBOX
We’re so excited to introduce you to our new book, Hotbox!
We took a detour from writing southern cookbooks to work as ten-dollar-an-hour kitchen assistants at a catering firm. For cooks like these, every night is a different menu in a different setting. And the number of guests regularly reaches into the thousands. Even when millions of dollars are spent on the décor, behind the scenes there’s rarely running water, electricity, or HVAC. The catering “kitchen” is typically a freezing-cold loading dock that was empty at 3pm when load-in began, and needs to be swept clean again by midnight. Every night is a traveling circus of perishables. As you might imagine, it’s a wild world, with its own rules and customs.
What is a hotbox? It’s the aluminum cabinet on wheels that holds all the food, transported from the caterer’s prep kitchen to the party; once onsite, it becomes an oven where the food finishes cooking…over many little cans of Sterno. Scary? You bet!
We hope you enjoy Hotbox. The way Bill Buford’s Heat, Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential and Gabrielle Hamilton’s Blood, Bones, and Butter made readers restaurant insiders, Hotbox will make you an expert on catered parties—how they work, what’s at stake in the kitchen, and how the food adds (and sometimes subtracts) from the celebration. You’ll never throw a party or attend one the same way again!
Tour Schedule
Advance Praise for Hotbox
–Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book
–Bill Buford, best-selling author of Heat
–Tom Colicchio
You're only as good as your last soufflé.
–Sean DriscollAbout HOTBOX
We’re so excited to introduce you to our new book, Hotbox!
We took a detour from writing southern cookbooks to work as ten-dollar-an-hour kitchen assistants at a catering firm. For cooks like these, every night is a different menu in a different setting. And the number of guests regularly reaches into the thousands. Even when millions of dollars are spent on the décor, behind the scenes there’s rarely running water, electricity, or HVAC. The catering “kitchen” is typically a freezing-cold loading dock that was empty at 3pm when load-in began, and needs to be swept clean again by midnight. Every night is a traveling circus of perishables. As you might imagine, it’s a wild world, with its own rules and customs.
What is a hotbox? It’s the aluminum cabinet on wheels that holds all the food, transported from the caterer’s prep kitchen to the party; once onsite, it becomes an oven where the food finishes cooking…over many little cans of Sterno. Scary? You bet!
We hope you enjoy Hotbox. The way Bill Buford’s Heat, Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential and Gabrielle Hamilton’s Blood, Bones, and Butter made readers restaurant insiders, Hotbox will make you an expert on catered parties—how they work, what’s at stake in the kitchen, and how the food adds (and sometimes subtracts) from the celebration. You’ll never throw a party or attend one the same way again!
Tour Schedule
Advance Praise for Hotbox
–Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book
–Bill Buford, best-selling author of Heat
–Tom Colicchio
You're only as good as your last soufflé.
–Sean DriscollAbout HOTBOX
We’re so excited to introduce you to our new book, Hotbox!
We took a detour from writing southern cookbooks to work as ten-dollar-an-hour kitchen assistants at a catering firm. For cooks like these, every night is a different menu in a different setting. And the number of guests regularly reaches into the thousands. Even when millions of dollars are spent on the décor, behind the scenes there’s rarely running water, electricity, or HVAC. The catering “kitchen” is typically a freezing-cold loading dock that was empty at 3pm when load-in began, and needs to be swept clean again by midnight. Every night is a traveling circus of perishables. As you might imagine, it’s a wild world, with its own rules and customs.
What is a hotbox? It’s the aluminum cabinet on wheels that holds all the food, transported from the caterer’s prep kitchen to the party; once onsite, it becomes an oven where the food finishes cooking…over many little cans of Sterno. Scary? You bet!
We hope you enjoy Hotbox. The way Bill Buford’s Heat, Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential and Gabrielle Hamilton’s Blood, Bones, and Butter made readers restaurant insiders, Hotbox will make you an expert on catered parties—how they work, what’s at stake in the kitchen, and how the food adds (and sometimes subtracts) from the celebration. You’ll never throw a party or attend one the same way again!