Copyright © 2009 by Pino Luongo and Andrew Friedman

Foreword copyright © 2009 by Anthony Bourdain

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Portions of chapters 5 and 7 appeared in somewhat different form in Don’t Try This at Home, edited by Kimberly Witherspoon and Andrew Friedman. They are reprinted here by kind permission of Inkwell Management.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Luongo, Pino.

Dirty dishes : a restaurateur’s story of passion, pain, and pasta / Pino Luongo and Andrew Friedman.—1st ed.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-1-60819-196-3

1. Luongo, Pino. 2. Restaurateurs—New York (State)—New York—Biography. I. Friedman, Andrew, 1967– II. Title.

TX910.5.L86A3 2009

647.95092—dc22

2008034860

First U.S. Edition 2009

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Typeset by Westchester Book Group
Printed in the United States of America by Quebecor World Fairfield