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Washington Post
04-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
The restaurant industry tore her down. In her memoir, she hits back.
Hannah Selinger's time working in restaurants left her simmering with rage. Anger pours forth from every page of 'Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly,' her debut memoir about her time rising up the ranks in the New York culinary scene, from server to sommelier in notable restaurants including Bar Americain, BLT Prime and Momofuku. The sommelier has sour grapes. And she names names.


Bloomberg
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Bloomberg
Notes from Underground: A New Memoir Settles Scores in the Restaurant Industry
Review Hannah Selinger's 'Cellar Rat' is full of fascinating intel on the business of selling wine, plus petty grievances against the hospitality world. By Save 'Chassagne Montrachet.' The pursuit of good wine often requires the ability to pronounce magic passwords to enter enchanted caves. And a lot of them are in French, which never sounds the way it looks to English speakers.