Alice waters

[Chef Alice Waters—chef, author, food activist, and the founder and owner of Chez Panisse restaurant](https://www.masterclass.com/classes/alice-waters-teaches-the-art-of-home-cooking) in Berkeley, California—is renowned for her ability to conjure up delicious, seasonal meals from scratch. Her philosophy of food is less about adhering to a set of recipes or strict rules; instead, it’s about exploring and marrying flavors and ingredients as they change through the seasons. The key to cooking…

We asked the Bay Area's larger-than-life toques to each reinterpret a Thanksgiving dish to be made at home this holiday.

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Salsa Verde, also known among my friends as “manna from the heavens,” is one of the cornerstones of my cooking. I rarely go a week without making it. It’s also the thing that most routinely results in people telling me that I’m “an amazing cook,” even when all they’ve tasted up to that point is

Alice Waters often recommends that cooks master a good minestrone. It’s communal and seasonal, two pillars on which she has built her cooking career. This summer recipe came from the cookbook that is her top seller: "The Art of Simple Food." It uses the best of the season’s green beans, tomatoes and squash. In the spring, fresh peas, asparagus and spinach would make a good vegetable trio, with some fennel standing in for the carrot in the sofrito. In the fall, cubes of butternut squash, a…

Locavore pioneer Alice Waters.

Alice Waters needs no introduction but we'll introduce her anyway. In 1971, back from travels in the UK, France and Turkey, and channeling the counterculture, she opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley. The…

That’s the question the Los Angeles Times poses in a lengthy article today, written to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Chez Panisse. The answers are varied: “There’s something very Khmer Rouge about Alice Waters,” said Anthony Bourdain, a chef as well known for his theatricality as his food. “I’m suspicious of orthodoxy when it […]

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