Off the Line: How to Become a Restaurant Coach, Consultant, and Strategist — Forty-six years in kitchens distilled into a roadmap for operators ready to step off the line and sell what they know. Part field guide, part business blueprint, it shows chefs and restaurant veterans how to turn hard-won experience into a consulting practice — diagnosing what's broken, pricing the fix, and landing the clients. The same clarity-over-chaos approach that runs The Parise Group, on the page.
How Not to Bomb: The Complete Guide to Standup Comedy — Thirty years of stage time, from New York clubs to Vegas headlining, turned into a working manual for anyone who wants to command a room. It's about writing, timing, bombing, and getting back up — the craft of standup, but also the nerve. The same resilience that powers the keynote and the podcast, on the page.
Now What Do We Do? A Practical, Honest Guide to Reinventing Your Life After 50 — For anyone staring down a second act and wondering if it's too late. Drawing on a career that's spanned kitchens, comedy clubs, and boardrooms, it's a straight-talking guide to starting over with what you've already got — no platitudes, no pretending it's easy. Reinvention is a process, not a pep talk.
Fifty old-school Italian American recipes, plus the stories that came with them. Sunday gravy at grandma's, Christmas Eve that never ended, weddings where the elders judged everything and took the silverware home. Part cookbook, part memoir of growing up Italian American when everyone was still alive. Available in paperback and Kindle.