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Kiss, Bow or Shake Hands: How to do Business in Sixty Countries
by Terri Morrison.
This was a great resource for me to round out the international flavor of the Marketplace. For my fans who keep asking me for "the protocol:" hey, start here and you tell me.
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The Bride Wore Black Leather...and He Looked Fabulous! An Etiquette Guide for the Rest of Us. by Drew Campbell.
If you care about good manners - and you should - this is THE book for polymorphous perverts. Clever, entertaining, and useful, it's blessed with stunning illustrations as well as practical, elegant advice.
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A Butler's Life: Scenes from the Other Side of the Silver Salver, by Kimberly Allen.
Based on stories her husband, an ex-butler, this is a handy but brief look at a butler's training and life, with some colorful stories and useful boxed areas where hints on table service and caring for clothing and china scattered randomly through the text.
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The Soul of a Chef The Journey Towards Perfection by Michael Ruhlman.
Not only a great look inside the Harvard of cooking schools; the CIA, but many of the sections sound remarkably like a Marketplace training house!
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Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House, by Cherul Mendelson.
One of my great resources, this is the one book to own if you want to know everything about cleaning, organizing, maintaining and caring for a home. Cooking, cleaning, caring for cloth, furniture, floors, walls... just everything.
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Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management, by Isabella Beeton.
Anyone who fetishizes the Victorian life as a model for living should own this book, either in the facsimile edition or the Oxford abridged version.
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Multicultural Manners, by Norine Dresser.
Another great book that has been a Marketplace resource. Dresser covers an array of topics, especially around verbal and non-verbal communicational differences in different cultures, and how gestures can be misinterpreted cross-culturally.
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Rose: My Life in Service, by Rose Harrison.
This easy-to-read, often humorous memoir of Rose's time as lady's maid to Lady Astor is a wonderful look into the last days of the Edwardian era and the move into the modern world.
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In the Royal Manner by Paul Burrell
Expert Advice and Etiquette and Entertaining from the Former Butler to Diana, Princess of Wales. If anyone should know about proper etiquette and entertaining, it's England's royal family.
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, by Anthony Bourdain.
We love Les Halles. And it's even more marvelous knowing that the master chef there is a guy who describes the production of his three-star meals as the collaborative effort of a team of "wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts, and psychopaths.
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