PX This. ( the book ) [ the blahg ]

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!"

PX Me - The Sequel to PX This (How I Became a Published Author,
Got Micro-Famous, and Married a Millionaire)
- COMING IN THE ~~SUMMER OF 2011~~ SPRING OF 2012 -

pxthis.com • abbediaz.com

• “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 Hunger

• Salman Rushdie is a "fan" on Facebook®

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