Résultats pour "Victory" dans Professionnels et universitaires

Victory in the Kitchen is a culinary biography: a life lived through food, ranging from rural Berkshire to wartime London, via Belle Epoque Paris and prohibition-era New York. While Georgina Landemare saw herself as ordinary, her accomplishments, and the life she lived, were anything but. She started her career as a nursemaid and ended it cooking for one of the best-known figures in British history, Winston Churchill, a man to whom food was central as a diplomatic tool in a time when the world was embroiled in a worldwide war.

By day he made deals with giants that made headlines everywhere. By night he felt his family, who he loved so much, slipping away. From the first ventures in the 1980s that started things out to massive contracts with some of the most respected companies in America, here, in Joshua Wallack’s own words, is a 40-year adventure no one could invent: the true love that forged the meaning of his life, startups, partnerships, and battles for the soul of the family.

When Corey Frantz, a former athlete and military serviceman was medically discharged from duty, he was faced with the daunting task of finding new purpose. This book takes you through his journey from the wrestling mat to the helm of All-American Paving & Construction, complete with the struggles of the tumultuous transition from military to civilian life. Corey gives you a front-row seat to the chaos that followed him into the business world, including hits and misses as his fledgling enterprise established its footing.