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Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook
This timeless addition to the Chez Panisse paperback cookbook library assembles 120 of the restaurant's best menus, including galas, festivals, and special occasion meals that have become such gustatory celebrations. A full range of menus is featured, from picnics to informal suppers. Line drawings.
Paperback, 336 pages
Published
April 18th 1995
by Random House
(first published 1982)
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This is outstanding as a cookbook and as a culture guide to what happened in American Cuisine as a result of Alice Waters
May 11, 2008
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Recommends it for:
adventerous eaters & chefs
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wine-and-food
definitely a cook book for the intermediate to advance person. lots of fine dining recipes, and uses a variety of ingredients while keeping to Alice Waters philosophy of fresh ingredients and simple and delicious food.
There are no photos in the book, and the book assumes the reader is fluent in most cooking terms.
While I did not try any of the recipes, the book gave me some good ideas on flavor profiles and combinations. Alice Waters also includes a sample of some of the menu's she's offered a...more
There are no photos in the book, and the book assumes the reader is fluent in most cooking terms.
While I did not try any of the recipes, the book gave me some good ideas on flavor profiles and combinations. Alice Waters also includes a sample of some of the menu's she's offered a...more
I can't believe I lived for 22 years without having read this book before! I've made most of the recipies that feature accessible ingredients, and her ideas are classic yet still inspiring. The best part of cookbooks are often found in the preambles, or the spaces in which the author offers cooking theory, or what drives them. God Bless You, Alice Waters.
While most home cooks would rarely ever make any of these dishes, I love the simplicity and the way in which Alice Waters uses her love of good, pure, seasonal, organic, sustainable food to create beautiful menus. In my eyes, she can do no wrong and this book is yet another testament to that fact.
This is at once my dream and the easiest path to a nervous breakdown: to serve a chez panisse menu-inspired meal to several people, at once. eee cooking anxiety! I love to pour over the recipes and notes though.
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picked off the shelves of http://www.boxcarkitchen.com/
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a little dated. but always essential. a little provincial. but still essential.
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Alice Waters, chef, author, and the proprietor of Chez Panisse, is an American pioneer of a culinary philosophy that maintains that cooking should be based on the finest and freshest seasonal ingredients that are produced sustainably and locally. She is a passionate advocate for a food economy that is “good, clean, and fair.” Over the course of nearly forty years, Chez Panisse has helped create a...more
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