Description
Clint Black needs 100 pork chops on a stick to go ASAP. Rascal Flatts wants 34 pizzas. Mickey Hart from the Grateful Dead decides he must have Lobster Thermidor at midnight. Welcome to Lobsters at Midnight and Other Confessions of a Backstage Caterer, which serves up an All-Access pass into Kathy Westbrook’s 37-year career as owner of “Eat Your Heart Out Catering,” based in Minneapolis, catering for theaters and festivals in the Midwest. Part memoir, part celebrity tell-all, and part cookbook, with recipes from stars included. From Miles Davis to Marilyn Manson, Westbrook did it all; part chef, part problem-solver, part crisis negotiator and nursemaid. This is the story of a girl who grew up in a Minneapolis suburb in the 1960s and became a caterer to the rock stars whose music first reached her through her pink transistor radio. And “catering” here means precisely that: catering to a star’s every whim: condoms for Mötley Crüe, underwear and socks for Chris Isaak, a bottle of white wine for Gregg Allman, and rolling papers for too many artists to count. Kitty’s life has been one long night of being caught between a rock star and a hard place.
