Alice Waters & Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution (Paperback or Softback)

McNamee, Thomas

ISBN 10: 0143113089 / ISBN 13: 9780143113089

Published by Penguin Books 3/1/2008, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alice Waters & Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution (Paperback or Softback)
• Publisher: Penguin Books 3/1/2008
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0143113089
• ISBN 13: 9780143113089
• Binding: Paperback or Softback
• Condition: New
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

The first authorized biography of "the mother of American cooking" (The New York Times)

This adventurous book charts the origins of the local "market cooking" culture that we all savor today. When Francophile Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley in 1971, few Americans were familiar with goat cheese, cappuccino, or mesclun. But it wasn't long before Waters and her motley coterie of dreamers inspired a new culinary standard incorporating ethics, politics, and the conviction that the best-grown food is also the tastiest. Based on unprecedented access to Waters and her inner circle, this is a truly delicious rags-to-riches saga.

About the Author

Thomas McNamee is an American author who writes about culinary history, natural history, and conservation. His credits include four nonfiction books on natural history, two culinary biographies (Alice Waters and Chez Panisse and The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat), and one novel, A Story of Deep Delight. He lives in San Francisco, California.