Sono passati quarantasette anni da quando Alice Waters ha aperto le porte di Chez Panisse, il 'ristorantino francese' di Berkeley, che ha dato inizio alla rivoluzione culinaria in America. Animata dall'amore per le cose semplici e, al tempo stesso, da un'incessante ricerca della bellezza e dei sapori più genuini, Alice ha introdotto concetti quali la sostenibilità, la scelta degli ingredienti, il piacere di cucinare per gli altri. In Con tutti i miei sensi, l'autrice riflette sul percorso tortuoso che l'ha portata al numero 1571 di Shattuck Avenue e che, nel 1971, è culminato nell'apertura del suo locale, oggi icona per gli appassionati di gastronomia. Ricordando per la prima volta, con le sue parole, le persone, i luoghi, le circostanze e i pasti che più l'hanno influenzata nel corso della vita, Alice delinea il ritratto indimenticabile di una giovane donna dei sobborghi del New Jersey che approda nella California del Nord, trovandosi al centro della nascente controcultura. Presa nel vortice di tumultuosi eventi politici e di complicate vicende personali, anche grazie all'esperienza formativa di un soggiorno in Europa alla fine degli anni Sessanta, riesce a raffinare la sua estetica, impegnandosi nella ricerca del sapore perfetto, unico e giusto. Intervallato da riflessioni sulle porte che si sono aperte dopo che Chez Panisse ha cambiato il corso della sua vita e della cultura del cibo in America, Con tutti i miei sensi trasmette la tranquilla determinazione e l'incessante entusiasmo che hanno ispirato l'attivismo di Alice, la sua missione e la sua creatività. Questa stori

Alice Waters è una chef, ristoratrice e scrittrice statunitense che ha fatto del cibo stagionale, sostenibile e locale la base di una vera e propria filosofia di vita, che l'ha resa famosa in tutto il mondo. Il suo segreto in cucina è partire dagli ingredienti migliori. Nel suo libro 'L'arte del cibo semplice' ha raccolto 19 lezioni e più di 250 ricette per tutti i giorni, che illustrano quanto può essere facile mangiare divinamente se si cucina, mangia e vive seguendo queste regole fondamentali: mangiate locale e sostenibile; mangiate secondo le stagioni; acquistate ai mercati locali; coltivate un orto; conservate, compostate e riciclate; cucinate in modo semplice; cucinate insieme; mangiate insieme; ricordate che il cibo è prezioso.

In 1981, at Bermondsey Market in London, Sean Sexton, the Irish-born photographic collector, chanced upon the gelatin silver prints of photographer Charles Jones. Dating from the turn of the century, these beguiling studio “portraits” of tulips and sunflowers, onions and turnips, plums and pears are skillfully executed and startling in their originality. Shot as close-ups, with long exposure and spare composition, the works anticipate by decades the later achievements of modernist masters.This volume presents Jones’s photography in sections devoted to vegetables, flowers, and fruit, with captions taken from Jones’s own identifications, written by hand on the back of the prints. Renowned writer and restaurateur Alice Waters describes the simple beauty of the photographs in the preface. Robert Flynn Johnson contextualizes the work in the still life tradition and pieces together the fragmentary evidence about the life of this mysterious figure, who trained as a gardener and worked on a number of private estates, but who left no notes or diaries to explain why he photographed the plants he saw every day. The perfect antidote to appetites jaded by processed foods and late twentieth-century consumerism, the legacy of Charles Jones is a reminder of the bountiful riches of nature.

An accessible collection of essays and recipes introduces the James Beard Award-winning author's philosophies about making one's own provisions using seasonal, organic and healthy artisanal foods.

A design-forward cookbook for sweet and savory baked goods from London's popular Violet Bakery that focuses on quality ingredients, seasonality, and taste (as opposed to science) as the keys to creating satisfying, delightful homemade pastries, tarts, sweets, and more.

Violet is a jewel box of a cake shop and café in Hackney, east London. The baking is done with simple ingredients including whole grain flours, less refined sugars, and the natural sweetness and nuanced hues of seasonal fruits. Everything is made in an open kitchen for people to see. Famed for its exquisite baked goods, Violet has become a destination.

Owner Claire Ptak uses her Californian sensibility to create recipes that are both nourishing and indulgent. With a careful eye to taste and using the purest ingredients, she has created the most flavorful iterations of classic cakes, as well as new treats for modern palates. Over 100 recipes include nourishing breakfasts, midday snacks, desserts to share, fruit preserves, and stylish celebration cakes.

This book is about making baking worth it: simple to cook and satisfying to eat.

Celebrating biodiversity through the Mother Garden’s collection of rare, open-pollinated varieties and wild edibles from OAEC’s ecological preserve

The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center Cookbook is a collection of inventive recipes from the renowned farm, educational retreat center, and ecothinktank nestled in the hills of western Sonoma County, California. One of the first farms to be certified organic in California, the “Mother Garden” has been at the forefront of the eco-agriculture movement since the early 1970s. Today, it continues to feed and inspire activists, biologists, educators, and artists seeking innovative and practical approaches to the pressing environmental, cultural, and economic crises of our day—while having fun, celebrating, and eating well.

OAEC has a passionate ethos about eating seasonally, with ingredients based on what is available in the garden. At OAEC, all parts of the vegetable (or fruit or nut) are utilized whenever possible; weeds are seen not as a nuisance, but as a welcome delicacy; and, above all, cooking and eating is best experienced through celebration, and with a community. OAEC is famous for their signature salad green mix and inventive salad dressings; a "signature salad" is offered at every meal, which is always served buffet style for crowds, usually with one sauce or spread that can be used drizzled all over the entire plate of food, or used just as a side.

This beautifully illustrated cookbook includes 204 unique and delicious vegetarian recipes with ingredients from all seasons of the garden (including weeds, flowers, herbs, nuts, fruits, mushrooms, and other forages), and offers samples of seasonal menus to inspire cooks even as their gardens appear most dormant. The recipes are also perfect for cooking for a crowd. Each recipe has measurement servings for gatherings of thirty to forty, so each dish can be served as large-scale dishes for parties, potlucks, and community events. It is sure to appeal to gardeners wanting new ways to cook with their vegetables, anyone shopping at the farmers market looking to expand their repertoire, home cooks who find themselves scratching their heads every time they’re invited to a big dinner party, chefs looking for inspired recipes using weeds and perennial fruits and vegetables, and community-based organizations who cook for crowds on a daily basis.

Forewords by Alice Waters and Michael Pollan

In this dazzling, full color cookbook and kitchen manual filled with lush photographs and beautiful drawings, the chef of Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse offers basic techniques and essential recipes that will transform anyone into a confident home cook.

When his oldest son was leaving for college, Cal Peternell, the chef of San Francisco’s legendary Chez Panisse, realized that, although he regularly made dinners for his family, he’d never taught them the basics of cooking. Based on the life-altering course of instruction he prepared and honed through many phone calls with his son, Twelve Recipes is the ultimate introduction to the kitchen. Peternell focuses on the core foods and dishes that comprise a successful home cook’s arsenal, each building skill upon skill—from toast, eggs, and beans, to vinaigrettes, pasta with tomato, and rice, to vegetables, soup, meats, and cake.

Twelve Recipes will help home cooks develop a core repertoire of skills and increase their culinary confidence. Peternell tells you what basic ingredients and tools you need for a particular recipe, and then adds variations to expand your understanding. Each tip, instruction, and recipe connects with others to weave into a larger story that illuminates the connection between food and life. A deeply personal book, it was written by the chef alone and it glows with warmth and humor as he mulls over such mundane items as toast and rice to offer surprising new insights about foods that only seem exceedingly ordinary. It’s a book you’re as likely to keep by your bedside as your stovetop. With Peternell as your guide, the journey is pure pleasure and the destination is delicious.

Twelve Recipes features gorgeous color photos and inset illustrations by Peternell’s wife and sons (all artists), and forewords by celebrated chef Alice Waters and New York Times columnist and bestselling author Michael Pollan.

Featuring more than 150 stunning full-color illustrations, this volume traces the history of Jefferson's unique vegetable garden, which has been painstakingly restored by the author, from the artichokes and asparagus first planted in 1770 through the horticultural experiments of Jefferson's retirement years.