ALICE WATERS AND CHEZ PANISSE. The Roman Impractrical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution

McNamee, Thomas

ISBN 10: 1594201153 / ISBN 13: 9781594201158

Published by Penguin Press, New York, 2007

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Foreword by R. W. Apple, Jr. 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. Illustrated from photographs. 380 pages with acknowledgments, index, interviews, and illustration credits. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ALICE WATERS AND CHEZ PANISSE. The Roman Impractrical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution
• Publisher: Penguin Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594201153
• ISBN 13: 9781594201158
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

An authorized portrait of the owner of the groundbreaking California organic food restaurant that helped launch modern ideas about organic food, sustainable farming, and American cuisine offers insight into her complex character and her achievements as a chef and activist.

About the Author

Thomas McNamee was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1947, and grew up there and in New York City. He graduated from Yale University in 1969. He is the author of The Grizzly Bear, Nature First, A Story of Deep Delights, and The Return of the Wolf to Yellowstone. He wrote the documentary film Alexander Calder, which was broadcast on the PBS American Masters series in 1998 and received both a George W. Peabody Award and an Emmy. His essays, poems, journalism, criticism, and natural history writing have been widely published, and he is a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review.