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Chef and restauranteur Alice Waters was born April 28,1944, in Chatham, New Jersey. She attended University of California at Berkeley where she earned a degree in French Cultural Studies. She has been the owner of the Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California for almost three decades. She is the author toon meer of The Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook, and Chez Panisse Vegetables. She also wrote a memoir entitled Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook. Waters collaborated with others chefs and a cardiologist to produce Heart-Healthy Cooking for All Seasons. Her awards include the Bon Appetit magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award, Restaurant and Business Leadership Award, Restaurants & Institutions Magazine and the James Beard Humanitarian Award. She was named Best Chef in America by the James Beard Foundation in 1992 and was listed as one of the ten best chefs in the world by Cuisine et Vins de France. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

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Chez Panisse Vegetables (1996) 568 exemplaren
Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook (1982) — Auteur — 421 exemplaren
Chez Panisse Café Cookbook (1999) 382 exemplaren
Chez Panisse Fruit (2002) — Auteur — 308 exemplaren
Chez Panisse Cooking (1988) 300 exemplaren
In the Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart (2010) — Auteur — 214 exemplaren

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I wanted to like this book. I greatly admire Alice Waters, and enjoy food memoirs, but this is, quite simply, not well written.
 
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jilldugaw | 9 andere besprekingen | Jan 27, 2024 |
I first heard of Alice Waters through the series Salt Fat Acid Heat where Samin Nosrat talked about Chez Panisse and then visited her to make pasta. So it is fascinating to read this book, to go from the people's (often admiring) perspectives of Waters' ambition and skills, to her own retelling of her almost lackadaisical and languorous path to the Waters and Chez Panisse so revered now.

Notable things to me:
1. Waters is hilariously boy-crazy! Falling in love left, right, and centre wherever she goes. I would almost argue that she's similarly girl-crazy the way she introduces her female friends, very focused on their physical attributes!
2. Waters surrounded herself with a good group of like-minded people who inspired her to learn. She managed to incorporate so many aspects of her friendships (or friends' skills) into her passion restaurant, by being so involved in the culture, or counterculture. That even if she hadn't opened an restaurant, her life would have just been as full and so fulfilling in its own right, without this universal public stamp of approval for Chez Panisse.
3. How absolutely lucky Waters was, but also her absolute openness to these opportunities. I can imagine simultaneously how fun yet also frustrating it would be for me to have a friend or close relative like Waters. However, as a reader, fabulous to read of such a charmed life.

As Waters' mother told her, she has lived a life so many have dreamed of. It's such a product of a specific time and place, I truly cannot foresee a similar life trajectory for anyone who can make such a cultural impact.
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kitzyl | 9 andere besprekingen | Oct 21, 2023 |
This was a bit tone-deaf and reeked of privilege.

Would we all love to cook our food from scratch with organic locally grown seasonal produce and love our jobs? Yes.

Do we all have the time, money or energy to do this? No.

Does this book address wage, time and health inequality in regards to how we could love this way with our own limitations? No.

That aside, the writing was easy to read and I liked that it included photography.
 
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spiritedstardust | 3 andere besprekingen | Jan 4, 2023 |

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