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**SQUEEEEEEE!** Salman Rushdie is a "fan" of PX This by abbe diaz on Facebook® (and yes, that was before they changed it to "like," thank you very much).
PX This. (diary of the “Maître d’ to the Stars”) – The Revised Edition, by Abbe Diaz, is the witty, irreverent (star-studded) four-year journal of a struggling commercial-artist/fashion-designer moonlighting as a maître d’ at some of Manhattan’s most renowned restaurants. It is a lighthearted, humorous, poignant, and uniquely insightful romp through the nightly playgrounds of some of New York’s (and Hollywood’s) most glamorous and elite, as viewed from the front podium.
You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! It’s "the bible of the [NYC Food & Beverage fine dining] industry!"
• “Restaurateur Jean-Georges Vongerichten is so annoyed by the success of his former Maitre D’ Abbe Diaz’s new tell-all book, he is forcing his employees to sign confidentiality agreements. They were also banned from discussing [the book] at work.” – The New York Post
• “Per Variety, ‘Daily Show’ correspondents Jason Jones and Samantha Bee have inked a deal with CBS to write and star in a sitcom about a celebrity chef and the two women who run his empire… [But] it turns out… Abbe Diaz has spent over a year shopping a treatment based on her own book… assuming the producers can find someone fierce enough to play the role of Diaz.”
— New York Magazine
• “… [Abbe Diaz] kept a diary in which she vented all her frustration — and named names.”
– msn.com
• “That’s YOUR book? Great! It’s about time somebody wrote a book like that…”
– Bobby Flay
• “I liked your book. I always knew [withheld] was like that… I’m just glad it wasn’t me!”
– Drew Nieporent
• “…[My book] will be nothing like your book…”
– John deLucie, Chef/Author – The Waverly Inn, The Lion / The Hunger
- COMING SOON IN THE SPRING OF 2012 -
• “That is genius.” – Joel Stein, Time
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Abbe Diaz is a freelance commercial-artist, designer/dressmaker, and restaurant consultant. She has worked in the restaurant/bar industry for nearly 25 years, with numerous stints throughout the New York dining/party scene that include: Limelight, Palladium, Tunnel, Club USA, Coffee Shop, Spy, Cafe Tabac, The Strand (Miami Beach), Mercer Kitchen, Ilo, Lotus, and Theo. She served as the opening maître d’ for The Park, Smith, and 66.
She is proud to have had the opportunity to work under such nightlife arbiters as: Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Brian McNally, Jonathan Morr, Peter Gatien, Eric Goode, and Sean Macpherson.
Diaz gained a B.A. in Economics from Rutgers College, Rutgers University – New Brunswick. She was further educated as a non-matriculate Design student at the Fashion Institute of Technology, in NYC, where she currently resides.
• “The New York service industry’s Norma Rae, Abbe Diaz… the Service Industry’s Nikke Finke…” – BlackBook
• “…pure unbridled crazy batshitness…” – gawker.com
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING about PX This – The Revised Edition:
"… one of the funniest books I have read in a very long time… really draws back the curtain on some of the hottest restaurants ever!" – D.N., New York
"… has got to be one of the best books on fashion ever written… [shows] what it takes to make it in a big city… so inspirational… gives me the strength and courage to follow my dreams…" – N.K., Detroit
"… this is one funny book… hilarious… I feel like I was there. Oh wait, maybe I was!"
- B.R., New York
"… Brilliant! Bravo!" – F.M., Philadelphia
"… a truly engaging restaurant tell-all told with humor, candor, and razor-sharp wit…. what a great book…" – T.B., Fort Lee
"… loved the fascianting glimpse into the high-fashion world! … Congrats on writing a great and funny book…" – N.L., Montreal
"… f#@%king genius." – P.R., Astoria
"… one of the funniest and most genuinely written books ever! … love your writing style … a hell of a writer! … definitely recommending it to my readers." – thefashioninsider.co.cc, Qatar
"You’re PX This Abbe? Oh my god, it’s the bible of the industry!" – M.N., Manager – Koi, Matsuri, Morimoto
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Have you heard?
Until the release of PX Me (Spring 2012), this website will henceforth be updated only intermittently (approximately once or twice a week).
Abbe Diaz’s new (daily) blog is now at:
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