"Coming to My Senses" first edition, signed by author
Language: English
Published by Clarkson Potter, New York, 2017
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
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"Coming to My Senses - The Making of a Counterculture Cook" by culinary icon Alice Waters. 306 pages, with no marks or wear whatsoever. Dust jacket shows very slight wear. First edition, signed by the author. A New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed memoir from the culinary pioneer who opened famed Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif in 1971 at age 27.
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- Title
- "Coming to My Senses" first edition, signed by author
- Author
- Alice Waters
- Publisher
- Clarkson Potter, New York
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 030771828X
- ISBN 13
- 9780307718280
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 5.5 inches width by 8.5 inches height by 1 inch depth
When Alice Waters opened the doors of her "little French restaurant" in Berkeley, California in 1971 at the age of 27, no one ever anticipated the indelible mark it would leave on the culinary landscape--Alice least of all. Fueled in equal parts by naiveté and a relentless pursuit of beauty and pure flavor, she turned her passion project into an iconic institution that redefined American cuisine for generations of chefs and food lovers. In Coming to My Senses Alice retraces the events that led her to 1517 Shattuck Avenue and the tumultuous times that emboldened her to find her own voice as a cook when the prevailing food culture was embracing convenience and uniformity. Moving from a repressive suburban upbringing to Berkeley in 1964 at the height of the Free Speech Movement and campus unrest, she was drawn into a bohemian circle of charismatic figures whose views on design, politics, film, and food would ultimately inform the unique culture on which Chez Panisse was founded. Dotted with stories, recipes, photographs, and letters, Coming to My Senses is at once deeply personal and modestly understated, a quietly revealing look at one woman's evolution from a rebellious yet impressionable follower to a respected activist who effects social and political change on a global level through the common bond of food.
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