Appropriately I took the photo of this book on the table I bought to be able to do more cooking at home. For those of you unfamiliar with Alice Waters she launched Chez Panisse and started the slow food movement. What was most interesting is that she was never classically trained as a chef. She was raised by a mother who believed in fresh organically grown food and the health benefits that came from eating that way.
This is Alice's story, in her own words, and stuffed with fun and funny anecdotes about things that happened in life along the way. Like many famous people, she didn't plan to be famous, she did what she enjoyed with people she liked and then built a movement.
It is a great walk through her formative years and the events that shaped the woman she would become. Timing and location of course has a lot to do with how things and both the 1960's and all of the various locations she was in, especially Berkeley, CA play their own role in both the book and her evolution as a person.
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