Flash in the Pan
Life and Death of an American Restaurant
1st Edition
Published on 26. March 2013
304 pages
978-1-4767-3500-9 (ISBN)
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?Finally back in print, Flash in the Pan is the original?and still the best?reportage on the life and death of an American restaurant, a ground level view of every phase of its life. From the early, hope filled planning stages to the last, humiliating moments, it's a tragi-comic epic of hubris and human folly. Painfully hilarious and even more painfully true. This is a welcome reissue of a restaurant classic that should be read by every culinary and food service student in America and sit comfortably next to Orwell's Down and Out on every shelf.?
?Anthony Bourdain, author of Kitchen Confidential
In 1990, journalist David Blum got backstage access to the life and death of The Falls, a downtown Manhattan restaurant that captured the 1980s in all its extravagant excess. Its owners?a tanned, Brahmin barkeep and a handsome Irish firefighter from Queens?partnered with movie star pal Matt Dillon to cater to New York's most glamorous models, actors, and writers. Flash in the Pan captured in hilarious detail the quick decline and disastrous fall of The Falls, and has become a classic cautionary tale for anyone who might harbor the fantasy of opening a restaurant.
David Blum is the editor of Kindle Singles, the storefront for high quality longform writing on Kindle. He was previously the editor in chief of The Village Voice and has written for New York magazine, Esquire, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. Flash in the Pan, first published in 1992, was his first book.
?Anthony Bourdain, author of Kitchen Confidential
In 1990, journalist David Blum got backstage access to the life and death of The Falls, a downtown Manhattan restaurant that captured the 1980s in all its extravagant excess. Its owners?a tanned, Brahmin barkeep and a handsome Irish firefighter from Queens?partnered with movie star pal Matt Dillon to cater to New York's most glamorous models, actors, and writers. Flash in the Pan captured in hilarious detail the quick decline and disastrous fall of The Falls, and has become a classic cautionary tale for anyone who might harbor the fantasy of opening a restaurant.
David Blum is the editor of Kindle Singles, the storefront for high quality longform writing on Kindle. He was previously the editor in chief of The Village Voice and has written for New York magazine, Esquire, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. Flash in the Pan, first published in 1992, was his first book.
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Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Author's Note
- Epigraph
- Part One: Smoking
- One: Have You Met Miss Jones?
- Two: Varick and Vandam
- Three: Miss Jones
- Four: The Slicing of the Pie
- Five: Why Did Hemingway Love Fish?
- Six: The Price of Eggs in SoHo
- Seven: Hey Bartender
- Eight: American Buffalo Burger
- Nine: What Else Is a Ceiling but a Wall Turned Upside Down?
- Ten: Let the Games Begin
- Eleven: The Evolution and Development of a Bottle in Space
- Twelve: Opening Night
- Thirteen: If You Serve Guacamole for Free They Will Come
- Fourteen: The Birthday Party
- Fifteen: Dances with Dishes
- Sixteen: Regarding Henry Hauck
- Seventeen: "I Don't Want to Be a Bowl-Brigger"
- Eighteen: Lady D'Arbanville and the Banana Cream Tart
- Nineteen: Crime and Punishment
- Twenty: Fucking Fruits and Vegetables
- Twenty-One: Gael Force
- Twenty-Two: Girls, Girls, Girls!
- Part Two: Non-Smoking
- Twenty-Three: Moe Green Meets Oliver Stone
- Twenty-Four: Bruce, Terry, and the Three Icelandic Blondes
- Twenty-Five: How to Save The Falls: A One-Act Play
- Twenty-Six: It's Miller Time
- Twenty-Seven: Down, Down, Down ...
- Twenty-Eight: "Ladies and Gentlemen ... Mr. Danny Aiello!"
- Twenty-Nine: Out of Gas
- Thirty: Those Lips, Those Isleys
- Thirty-One: It Should Have Been Roast Beef Sandwiches
- Thirty-Two: A Kiss Before Dying
- Thirty-Three: Too Many Fish
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- About The Author
- Copyright
