Chez Panisse Vegetables

By Alice Waters

Categories: Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Chez Panisse Vegetables, by Alice Waters, is organized alphabetically by vegetable and offers more than 250 recipes. For each vegetable it explains when it is in season, how it looks and tastes, and how to select and prepare it, drawing on the kitchen of the Berkeley restaurant. Patricia Curtan illustrated the book with colorful linocut prints and also designed it. The result works both as a cookbook and as a reference for choosing and cooking seasonal produce.

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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.”