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Please buy The Book of Eating: Adventures in Professional Gluttony so that Platt can just retire and leave us restaurateurs alone once and for all.”</em></p> <p><strong>Danny Meyer</strong><br /> CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group<br /> Founder of Shake Shack<br /> New York Times bestselling author of Setting the Table</div> </div>  </div>  </div> <div class="et_pb_row_inner et_pb_row_inner_2"> <div class="et_pb_column et_pb_column_2_9 et_pb_column_inner et_pb_column_inner_2"> <div class="et_pb_button_module_wrapper et_pb_button_0_wrapper et_pb_button_alignment_left et_pb_module "> <a class="et_pb_button et_pb_button_0 et_pb_bg_layout_light" href="https://platteats.com/the-book/">Learn More</a> </div> </div> <div class="et_pb_column et_pb_column_2_9 et_pb_column_inner et_pb_column_inner_3"> <div class="et_pb_button_module_wrapper et_pb_button_1_wrapper et_pb_button_alignment_left et_pb_module "> <a class="et_pb_button et_pb_button_1 et_pb_bg_layout_light" href="https://platteats.com/old-world-eating-the-education-of-a-food-critic/">Read Excerpt</a> </div> </div> <div class="et_pb_column et_pb_column_2_9 et_pb_column_inner et_pb_column_inner_4 et-last-child et_pb_column_empty"> </div>  </div> <div class="et_pb_with_border et_pb_row_inner et_pb_row_inner_3 et_pb_equal_columns et_pb_gutters1"> <div class="et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column_inner et_pb_column_inner_5 et-last-child"> <div class="et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_2 et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_text_align_left"> <div class="et_pb_text_inner"><p><em>“A timely and delectable smorgasbord of dishes and dishing … this honest, revealing and funny book is as deeply pleasurable as the soup dumplings Platt learned to love as a boy.”</em></p> <p><strong>Lisa Abend [New York Times Sunday Book Review]</strong></p> <p><em>“The best thing about Platt’s new memoir, “The Book of Eating: Adventures in Professional Gluttony,” is the way he dispenses with pretense in general. 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