Chez Panisse Café Cookbook

By Alice Waters

Categories: Cookbooks, Food & Wine

The Chez Panisse Café Cookbook gathers more than 140 recipes from the café that opened in 1980 above Alice Waters's more formal Berkeley restaurant. Some dishes have been on the menu since opening day, while others are freshly reinvented. The café's cooks draw on the traditions of Mediterranean regions such as Catalonia, Campania and Provence, using produce from the restaurant's network of small farms. Chapter-opening essays describe Waters's relationships with the farmers, foragers and suppliers behind its food.

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• Seth Godin: “After that, I bought a few foundational books: Think Like a Chef, some books from Alice Waters, Daniel Leaders' groundbreaking books on baking. I didn't buy books of recipes. I bought books where someone who understood how to cook had a narrative about how it all fits together.”