Working for Mario Batali meant being a wingman, a punching bag, and a voracious lush who rarely said “no.” ...

She’ll talk about it all at Brookline Booksmith alongside restaurateur Tiffani Faison on Friday, March 21. We chatted about the book in advance of the event.

After years of assisting Mario Batali and then Anthony Bourdain, Woolever has written a memoir that’s tricky to classify and ...

Borromini, Stephen Starr’s highly anticipated forthcoming Italian restaurant — or, as some describe it, “Italian Parc” — is taking shape in the former Barnes & Noble bookstore on the Walnut Street ...

On her first day working as Mario Batali’s assistant in 1999, Laurie Woolever, then 25, got in a cab with the famous chef to go to a TV shoot. “Slide those thighs on over,” he told her.

She was Mario Batali’s assistant from 1999 to 2002, and Anthony Bourdain’s assistant, working closely on his books and television shows, from 2009 until his death in 2018. Her new memoir ...

It's safe to say the game is bigger than just those. Also available today is Mario's Picross - which is, as you'd expect, Picross puzzles to colour in based on Mario and Mushroom Kingdom designs.

Bourdain then encouraged Woolever to share her own experience with chef Mario Batali. Anthony Bourdain’s Assistant Laurie Woolever Reveals His Eerie Final Texts to Her in Emotional Memoir ...

Woolever only spoke anonymously but Batali somehow learned of Bourdain's encouragement. She writes: "A few days before Thanksgiving, I got an email from Mario, subject line 'Threat,' that stopped ...

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP/REX/Shutterstock (9203697h) Mario Batali attends the Food Bank For New York City Can-Do Awards Dinner at Cipriani ...