Pop Lit Column, Sunday Book Review
by Diane White, The Boston Globe
April 13, 2008

"Turning Tables" ought to be required reading for restaurant reviewers and lousy tippers. It's the work of identical twins Heather and Rose MacDowell. Together, the MacDowells have more than 10 years of experience waiting tables at some of the best (and worst) restaurants in Manhattan, San Francisco, and Nantucket. They've put in the time, they've suffered, they've taken notes, and "Turning Tables" is the entertaining result.
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At Last, Fun Froth: a Novel About a Young Waitress in a 'Hot' NYC Restaurant
by Jesse Kornbluth, for HeadButler.com
April 10, 2008

One of my friends once had every job imaginable in a three-star restaurant. On the side, she worked parties for the mega-rich. Now she's married and socializes with the Upper East Siders she used to serve. Sometimes they look at her, as if to say, "I know you from somewhere." And she is so tempted to help them out with this showstopper: "I boned your fish."
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There's a Movie in this Delightful Story
by Malcolm Ritter, Associated Press
March 19, 2008

This novel will give you a new appreciation for what waiters and waitresses at fancy restaurants go through. And even if you don't eat at fancy restaurants, you'll be rewarded with a delightful story.
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Rose MacDowell, Author of 'Turning Tables,' Only Cried on the Job Once
by Daniel Maurer, New York Magazine
March 18, 2008

Identical twins Heather and Rose MacDowell waited tables for five years in Manhattan before penning their novel, Turning Tables, out next week. Rose won’t name the restaurants they worked for, offering only that she was at one of the Ark Restaurants in Manhattan (it operates the Bryant Park Grill and others), while her sister worked at a defunct Italian restaurant in the Columbus Circle area. Nevertheless, she was quite candid about the industry she says she could only cope with via on-the-job hookups and shots snuck from behind the bar.
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Twin Sisters Turn Tables on Working in Restaurants
by Kristen Browning-Blas, The Denver Post
February 26, 2008

In their entertaining little novel, "Turning Tables," due out from Dial Press at the end of March, twin sisters Heather and Rose MacDowell put the reader in the sensible shoes of a laid-off marketing pro bluffing her way into a server job at a high-end Manhattan restaurant.
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