Here's an interesting side note to last summer's contretemps between chef and obscenity-prone Twitter-user John Tesar and our restaurant critic, Leslie Brenner.
When Tesar cursed at Brenner on Twitter following her three-star review of his restaurant, Knife, writer Josh Ozersky was among the first on the scene with a Q&A with Tesar for Esquire, where he is editor at large.
Now Tesar and Ozersky have teamed up to write a book, and Dallas-based agent David Hale Smith got them a publishing contract with Flatiron Books, a new division of Macmillan.
Smith reports that he "brokered a six-figure book deal," for the two.
Bob Miller, publisher and president of Flatiron, and Will Schwalbe, executive VP of editorial development and content innovation at Macmillan, announced the acquisition of Knife: Modern Steak and All American Meats.
The book is scheduled for a spring 2017 release.
Alan Peppard
