From the renowned culinary innovator comes an innovative approach to simple cooking that reveals her emphasis on selecting seasonal, local, fresh, and sustainable foods; includes a series of lessons on the everyday principles and practices of good eating; and is accompanied by more than two hundred [...]

Chez Panisse is a restaurant in Berkeley, California, run by Alice Waters and her large group of friends. Her daughter Fanny's stories of this busy place are a friendly and funny introduction to the delights of real restaurant life, and her recipes show how easy and inexpensive it is to make good fo[...]