An English waiter's captivating account of his work in Parisian restaurants will whet your appetite
Why you will never want to eat in Paris again! An English waiter's gripping tale of working in Paris restaurants will whet your appetiteEdward Chisholm, left by his French girlfriend was alone and penniless in ParisThe English writer took a job as a waiter and lived in day to day feeding on cigarsHe has met only humiliation from rude customers to dastardly bosses and untrustworthy colleagues Updated: Jun 30, 2022 11:37pm BST
BOOK OF THE WEEK
A SERVER IN PARIS
by Edward Chisholm (Monoray £16.99, 384pp)
Dumped by his French girlfriend, down to his last coins, and generally" worse than when I started at university", at least Edward Chisholm is in Paris.
Unfortunately, the pretty city of manicured boulevards, museums and parks only exists in guidebooks - and it's out of reach anyway of the "underpaid and undernourished". slaves' who make up the current local population.
A Waiter In Paris is a gripping account of what life "at the bottom of the food chain" is really like, and Chisholm's prose delights in describing the graffiti , soggy cardboard boxes and sidewalks littered with trash.
Make no mistake, the Paris of Picasso or Hemingway is gone. It is now a border area full of “undocumented” immigrants (Chisholm is one himself), drug addicts and people in mental distress. “There is a brown fog over the city,” we are told, as Paris exudes “a heady, sulphurous, rotten egg, old shoes, brake dust, and a urine-tinged infusion.”
Beyond the wealthy neighborhoods, with their absent oligarchs, or...
BOOK OF THE WEEK
A SERVER IN PARIS
by Edward Chisholm (Monoray £16.99, 384pp)
Dumped by his French girlfriend, down to his last coins, and generally" worse than when I started at university", at least Edward Chisholm is in Paris.
Unfortunately, the pretty city of manicured boulevards, museums and parks only exists in guidebooks - and it's out of reach anyway of the "underpaid and undernourished". slaves' who make up the current local population.
A Waiter In Paris is a gripping account of what life "at the bottom of the food chain" is really like, and Chisholm's prose delights in describing the graffiti , soggy cardboard boxes and sidewalks littered with trash.
Make no mistake, the Paris of Picasso or Hemingway is gone. It is now a border area full of “undocumented” immigrants (Chisholm is one himself), drug addicts and people in mental distress. “There is a brown fog over the city,” we are told, as Paris exudes “a heady, sulphurous, rotten egg, old shoes, brake dust, and a urine-tinged infusion.”
Beyond the wealthy neighborhoods, with their absent oligarchs, or...
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