Books by Alice Waters
Chez Panisse Fruit
by Alice Waters
Alice Waters runs this absolutely amazingly cool restaurant in Berkley and popularized the whole locally sourced organic thing we’re so familiar with now. I got this book and then I went to see Alice Waters talking about it and then I said “I want to come work at Chez Panisse.
“All the Chez Panisse books are great: it’s hard to choose one. But Chez Panisse Vegetables is great because Alice Waters is the woman who globalised the whole fresh groceries thing. She started the farmer’s market movement with her emphasis on organically produced food that tastes wonderful, and her recipes are very simple but inspiring, because you think if you do cook seasonally your food is going to taste good. She was very much inspired by Richard Olney.” Read more...
The best books on Favourite Cookbooks
Jojo Tulloh, Cooks & Food Writer
Interviews where books by Alice Waters were recommended
The best books on Favourite Cookbooks, recommended by Jojo Tulloh
The best cookbooks according to food editor of The Week. Raves especially about the Chez Panisse cookbooks. Says she’d like “it was my pleasure” carved on her gravestone
The best books on Cakes, recommended by Claire Ptak
Claire Ptak, owner of the Violet Bakery in London and former pastry chef at Chez Panisse, recommends some of her own favourite cookbooks. [Since speaking to us in 2015, Claire Ptak has subsequently designed Harry and Meghan’s wedding cake]
