Alice Waters & Chez Panisse
The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution
New York : Penguin Books, 2008, 2007.
Format: Book
Description: xvi, 380 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
A portrait of the owner of the 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.
Contents:
_ Opening night, 1971, 2006 -- Soup, 1944-1965 -- Very Sixties, 1965-1966 -- Montessori and a dream, 1967-1971 -- Very Berkeley, 1971-1973 -- Jeremiah, 1973-1975 -- Last birthday? 1976 -- Ennui and inspiration, 1977-1978 -- Creation and destruction, 1979-1982 -- Rebaptism by fire, 1982 -- A world for Fanny, 1983-1984 -- Alice takes flight, 1985-1986 -- Death and life, 1986-1987 -- Sustainability, 1987-1991 -- Star power, 1991-1994 -- Into the great world, 1995-2001 -- An extraordinary day in Italy, 2001-2002 -- An ordinary afternoon and evening at Chez Panisse, 2003-2006.
Subjects:
Waters, Alice.
Chez Panisse.
Restaurateurs -- United States -- Biography.
Women cooks -- United States -- Biography.
Waters, Alice.
Chez Panisse.
Restaurateurs -- United States -- Biography.
Women cooks -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780143113089 (pbk.)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Waters, Alice | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
Originally published: New York : Penguin Press, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-367) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-367) and index.