From KCRW, Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. I'm thrilled to have here, Mimi Pond.

Her book, Over Easiest Published by Drone and Quarterly, and so many people who published there probably grew up reading Mimi Pond. This book is a terrific memoir about life in San Diego and Oakland and working as a waitress, but I got a few part in the expression, a taste of it when I saw your comic recipe for Schnitzel on the Savur website,

which has a cameo by one of the chefs.

Yes.

In the piece.

Yes, his special nickname for all of us waitresses was, you lion whore.

But what that comic, and by the way, I've made that recipe, it's a really great

recipe for Snitzel.

Oh, you made it?

Absolutely, I did.

I'm a food geek among other kinds of geek in my worship at the foot of.

And it's great to see in the book what seems like it's anecdotal is actually a

narrative. And I wonder how you arrived at that. And if you just sort of felt like your style

lent itself to a longer narrative, you just hadn't had a chance to do it before? I just hadn't

had a chance to do it before. And this is, this is a story like I said in the book that it, you know, the very day I went to work there, I knew I was, this was a story

that I was going to one day have to tell. I mean, it just seized a hold of me and it never

let go. And years passed and I made notes and I tried to make outlines and lists of characters

and trying to decide who to put in and who to leave out and like tacked up three by five cards on a cork board and

rearranged them and puzzled over it and you know I'd be driving my car and almost get in an

accident and I'd think I have got to finish that book I mean that's how badly I had to do it and this is

just part one I'm working on part two.

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