'Alice Waters and Chez Panisse' by Thomas McNamee

[rjwong]

Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution / by Thomas McNamee

The Penguin Press: 384 pp., $27.95

I noticed that the LA Times reviewed this book: 'Alice Waters and Chez Panisse' ; How a community table turned into a national force / by Susan Salter Reynolds

From the start, it was more than a restaurant; it was a quiet revolution, fueled in part by a vision of life in a Marcel Pagnol movie, an idea of France, an idea of what life should look like, an idea of what it means to be human.

One of the most charming things about Thomas McNamee's "Alice Waters and Chez Panisse" ...  is how clear it becomes that, in the three and a half decades since the restaurant served its first meal on Aug. 28, 1971, the original ideal of building community by eating good food together has become part of the culture of this country.

Read. Chew. Discuss.