Cakeage Fee--A Bad Taste in the Mouth: An Unsavory Encounter at The Breslin with a Wait Person's (Waiter) Arrogance and Ignorance, a Letter by My Friend Rose Levy Beranbaum, Author of Numerous Books on Cakes and Baking

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Rose Levy Beranbaum, author of numerous books on cakes and baking, notably The Cake Bible, is a nice woman, but she got mightly pissed off and rightfully so over being charged "a cakeage fee" at The Breslin restaurant for tasting a cake she had left over from a film shoot!  The waiter, after admonishing Rose and her guests, brought four forks back to the table, no plates, nothing but an admonition that he was going to report them to the chef.  When the bill came, Rose was charged a $25 "cake" fee.  Read the rest of her letter,  A Bad Taste in the Mouth . . .

Bryan Miller & Rose Levy Beranbaum at the Food Arts magazine holiday party.  
Photo by Gerry Dawes©2009. gerrydawes@aol.com

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About Gerry Dawes

Gerry Dawes's Spain: An Insider's Guide to Spanish Food, Wine, Culture and Travel


Gerry Dawes was awarded Spain's prestigious Premio Nacional de Gastronomía (National Gastronomy Award) in 2003. He writes and speaks frequently on Spanish wine and gastronomy and leads gastronomy, wine and cultural tours to Spain. He was a finalist for the 2001 James Beard Foundation's Journalism Award for Best Magazine Writing on Wine, won The Cava Institute's First Prize for Journalism for his article on cava in 2004, was awarded the CineGourLand “Cinéfilos y Gourmets” (Cinephiles & Gourmets) prize in 2009 in Getxo (Vizcaya) and received the 2009 Association of Food Journalists Second Prize for Best Food Feature in a Magazine for his Food Arts article, a retrospective piece about Catalan star chef, Ferran Adrià.

In December, 2009, Dawes was awarded the Food Arts Silver Spoon Award in a profile written by José Andrés.

". . .That we were the first to introduce American readers to Ferran Adrià in 1997 and have ever since continued to bring you a blow-by-blow narrative of Spain's riveting ferment is chiefly due to our Spanish correspondent, Gerry "Mr. Spain" Dawes, the messianic wine and food journalist raised in Southern Illinois and possessor of a self-accumulated doctorate in the Spanish table. Gerry once again brings us up to the very minute. . ." - - Michael & Ariane Batterberry, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher and Founding Editor/Publisher, Food Arts, October 2009. 

Mr. Dawes is currently working on a reality television series
on wine, gastronomy, culture and travel in Spain.

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Gerry Dawes can be reached at gerrydawes@aol.com; Alternate e-mail (use only if your e-mail to AOL is rejected): gerrydawes@gmail.com