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Alice Waters & Chez Panisse : the romantic, impractical, often eccentric, ultimately brilliant making of a food revolution
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Alice Waters & Chez Panisse : the romantic, impractical, often eccentric, ultimately brilliant making of a food revolution

Author: Thomas McNamee
Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The authorized biography of Alice Waters and the San Francisco 1970s counterculture food revolution that invented "American cuisine." Not so long ago it was nearly impossible to find a cappuccino or a croissant in this country, most people had no idea what "organic" food was, and even fewer thought about "sustainable farming." But in 1971, in Berkeley, a young Francophile opened a small restaurant for her friends and  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Alice Waters
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Thomas McNamee
ISBN: 1594201153 9781594201158
OCLC Number: 70775797
Description: xvi, 380 p. : ill., music ; 25 cm.
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.
Other Titles: Alice Waters and Chez Panisse
Responsibility: Thomas McNamee ; foreword by R.W. Apple, Jr.
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The authorized biography of Alice Waters and the San Francisco 1970s counterculture food revolution that invented "American cuisine." Not so long ago it was nearly impossible to find a cappuccino or a croissant in this country, most people had no idea what "organic" food was, and even fewer thought about "sustainable farming." But in 1971, in Berkeley, a young Francophile opened a small restaurant for her friends and launched an entirely new way of thinking about and food in America. With no business sense or financial discipline, Alice relied on the coterie of devoted friends and followers who developed around her and on her strong principles of, among other things, using only locally grown and organic ingredients at the peak of their seasons, to keep her restaurant afloat. It was a reckless, extravagant, inexperienced venture that could have failed, but instead--somehow--turned into a revolution.--From publisher description.

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