Always Home: A Daughter's Recipes & Stories: Foreword by Alice Waters|Paperback (2024)

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A cookbook and culinary memoir about growing up as the daughter of revered chef/restaurateur Alice Waters: a story of food, family, and the need for beauty in all aspects of life.

In this extraordinarily intimate portrait of her mother—and herself—Fanny Singer, daughter of food icon and activist Alice Waters, chronicles a unique world of food, wine, and travel; a world filled with colorful characters, mouth-watering traditions, and sumptuous feasts. Across dozens of vignettes with accompanying recipes, she shares the story of her own culinary coming of age and reveals a side of her legendary mother that has never been seen before. A charming, smart translation of Alice Waters's ideals and attitudes about food for a new generation, Always Home is a loving, often funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely written look at a life defined in so many ways by food, as well as the bond between mother and daughter.

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ISBN-13:9780525433873
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:02/22/2022
Pages:336
Sales rank:665,894
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

FANNY SINGER is a writer, editor, and co-founder of the design brand, Permanent Collection. In 2013, she received a Ph.D. on the subject of the British pop artist Richard Hamilton's late work from the University of Cambridge. In 2015, she and her mother, Alice Waters, published My Pantry, which she also illustrated. Having spent more than a decade living in the United Kingdom, Fanny recently moved back to her native California. Based in San Francisco, she travels widely, contributing art reviews and culture writing to a number of publications including Frieze, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, Apartamento, T Magazine, and Art Papers, among others.

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A memoir, if that’s the right word for this body of text, is an unusual undertaking for someone in her mid-thirties. But then,the word memoir isn’t quite the right fit anyway; it suggests something far more comprehensive and, perhaps, chronological, than what follows. This is a collection of stories and remembrances, some less or more fleshed out, some more or less narrative, but no matter their subject or length, their protagonist, their reason for being, is my mother.

My mother has been “famous” for as long as I can remember, though I measured fame not by the visibility of her face in the media or her recognizability on a given city street—or even by the very occa­sional request for an autograph when we were traveling—so much as by her capacity to instantly materialize a table for four at the best, most overbooked restaurants. By all accounts, she was in fact not that well known, and certainly not outside the innermost circle of the food world. This has of course changed in the last twenty-odd years: she’s since been the subject of a biography, a MasterClass, hundreds of arti­cles, and several television shows; and the recipient of more honorary doctorates than I can count, including a National Endowment for the Humanities medal bestowed by President Obama (she was the first chef to receive the honor), as well as copious awards (which far out­number the trophies I amassed over a lengthy soccer career), a couple of knighthoods (France, Italy), and so forth. She is still not someone who gets mobbed out in the open or ever snapped by professional paparazzi, but she is loved by many across the globe.

No matter the country, however, one thing that distinguishes her notoriety is that she is admired, above all else, for her altruism. Which is to say, she is adored not as an actor might be, for a tour de force in which she plays a character, but for being emphatically, truly herself. And with such a degree of determination that even her moral inflex­ibility has become one of the defining features of her fame. This must be the best type of celebrity to have attained: invisibility to all but those who worship you for your actions (and the occasional detractor who feels compelled to join the small chorus of contrarians).

Still, I didn’t think to write this book because my mother is famous. Rather I wanted to write it in spite of her fame. Even though there is considerable parity between her public and private personas, there still is a part of her more private self—which is to say, her family self—that makes the picture bigger, that amplifies the image. I don’t have an expository story to tell, but I have had the experience of being the only person on this planet who is her child.

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Table of Contents

List of Recipes ix

Foreword Alice Waters xi

Preface 5

Chapter 1 Beauty as a Language of Care 11

Chapter 2 In the Mornings 19

Chapter 3 Maroon and Chartreuse 24

Chapter 4 Peeling Fruit 35

Chapter 5 First Fragola 41

Chapter 6 Smell 45

Chapter 7 Chicken Stock 52

Chapter 8 Salad 61

Chapter 9 The Lunchbox 66

Chapter 10 Pat's Pancakes 77

Chapter 11 Egg in the Spoon 87

Chapter 12 Chez Panisse 95

Chapter 13 Domaine Tempier 113

Chapter 14 The Mistral 126

Chapter 15 Les Petites Mouettes 133

Chapter 16 La Villa des Clairs Matins 145

Chapter 17 The Pyrenees 158

Chapter 18 Lobster Salad 165

Chapter 19 Potpie 175

Chapter 20 Puteaux 180

Chapter 21 Le Twix 189

Chapter 22 Bolinas Birthdays 194

Chapter 23 Even the Beans 214

Chapter 24 Christmas 218

Chapter 25 Seven Fish Dinner 223

Chapter 26 The Mystery Nugget 235

Chapter 27 Niloufer 243

Chapter 28 Everything Tastes Better with Lime 255

Chapter 29 Thanksgiving 260

Chapter 30 David 285

Chapter 31 The College Garden 294

Chapter 32 On the Road 305

Acknowledgments 319

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How many cookbooks did Alice Waters write? ›

Alice Waters is the visionary chef and owner of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California. She is the author of four cookbooks, including Chez Panisse Vegetables and Fanny at Chez Panisse. Known as the Queen of Local Food, she founded the Edible schoolyard at Berkeley's Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School.

What are other books by the author of Rick Stein at Home Recipes Memories and Stories from a Food Lover's Kitchen? ›

About the Author

As well as presenting a number of television series, he has published many best-selling cookery books, including French Odyssey, Coast to Coast, Far Eastern Odyssey, Rick Stein's Long Weekends and Rick Stein's India.

Why did Chez Panisse loses Michelin star? ›

In interviews, Michelin director Jean-Luc Naret has made a point of saying that Chez Panisse's demotion was not the same as a star chef losing a star. The inspectors simply could not find the consistency they once did.

What is Alice Waters most famous for? ›

Founder of the Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California, Alice Waters is considered by many to be the originator of “California Cuisine.” Her philosophy of using only fresh, locally grown organic ingredients and her advocacy of sustainable agriculture has made her one of America's most influential chefs.

What is the oldest surviving book of recipes? ›

Yale Culinary Tablets (1700 BC)

Three clay tablets dating back to 1700 BC may just be the oldest cookbooks in the world. Known as the Yale culinary tablets and part of the Yale's Babylonian collection, these Mesopotamian tablets display the oldest recipes.

What recipes are in Rick Stein at home? ›

Recipes
  • Poached salmon with mayonnaise, new potatoes and cucumber salad recipe. ...
  • Carrot, beetroot and red onion tarte tatin recipe. ...
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  1. Take a Moment to Remember.
  2. Try One of These Sites. Google Books. Amazon's Advanced Book Search. BookBub. Library of Congress. GoodReads. WhichBook. Reddit. Quora.
  3. Put Out a Call on Social Media. Social Media Groups.
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Who has written the most cookbooks? ›

Barbara Grunes is the most published cook book writer in history putting the Midwest on the culinary map and making flour-less chocolate cake a household phrase.

How many Alice books are there? ›

Naylor has written over 125 adult and young-adult novels, 28 of them in the Alice novel series.

Does Alice Waters still own Chez Panisse? ›

Long a champion of local, seasonal, organic cuisine inspired by Mediterranean cooking, Waters has for many years been more of an outspoken iconoclast and promoter of a movement than a hands-on chef, though she remains owner and inspiration of Chez Panisse.

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William Powell was 19 when he wrote those words, during the height of the Vietnam War protests. Since then, The Anarchist Cookbook has sold more than 2 million copies.

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