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40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering Hardcover – August 23, 2011

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  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Clarkson Potter; First Edition first Printing edition (August 23, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0307718263
  • ISBN-13: 978-0307718266
  • Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 1 x 11.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #695,742 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsA Sumptuous Feast....
By RAND H. on August 23, 2011
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Just spent the afternoon with this gorgeous book and feel as if I've whiled away the day lingering over a sparkling champagne lunch with Alice and friends. I've only had the pleasure of dining with them once - what a shame, considering the many trips I've made to San Francisco. I had expected a book of essays with pictures sprinkled throughout but instead found a virtual trip back in time, a beautiful, evocative picturebook with essays sprinkled here and there. If you're expecting recipes, I'd recommend one of the many Chez Panisse cookbooks as there isn't a recipe to be found here. And you won't mind, either. Worth every penny. I'm ready to start packing for a quick trip to Berkley. Merci beaucoup, Alice!
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5.0 out of 5 starsEven if You Own the Book Version
By Robert R. on July 14, 2013
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Even if you own the book version, don't overlook the audio version from Audible.com -- it's incredible. Hear the people in the book come to life. Even Marian Cunningham and others who have passed on are in there talking away, so they must have been working on it forever. It's wonderful, fascinating, and less than $5. Highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 starsGood Food, Good Read
By Ellen C. Waff on October 3, 2011
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This retrospective of the famous 'Chez Panisse' is a delightful read. It becomes obvious that Alice Waters is only one player in the development of an entirely new genre of restaurants, indeed a new way of looking at the food we eat. Many friends pulled together to change the world of food. The locavore movement started here. Interesting that this bunch of radical-ish Berkleyites made a real change happen in the world that they never would have suspected in the late 60's and early 70's.
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5.0 out of 5 starsI want to celebrate birthdays.
By Delisa Toole on January 13, 2013
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This book is amazing. Buy it.
Alice has modeled "The Power of Gathering" for 40 years.
Her celebration of milestones on this journey are captivating.

This book makes you want to mark the special moments in the passions you pursue. Don't let time click by, take the time to stop, invite the people who have shared in your work, and celebrate together your contributions to make an impact in the world.

Alice models celebrating what you do in life, with the ones you do life with.
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3.0 out of 5 starsNot recommended
By Sun on March 20, 2016
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I bought the audio edition of this book, and the other book "Alice Waters and Chez Panisse". I recommend everyone to buy the latter one, which is so much more like real stories (happiness, sadness, anger, frustration all mixed together) instead of brief and happy reviews of the "successful" past....
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3.0 out of 5 starssecrets about the early days
By Secret Admirer on October 13, 2011
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September 1, 2011
It was an obscure, dingy, two-story apartment building, converted from an old house, in an ignored part of Berkeley. Not expensive to buy. It had good bones. I tore it down to the studs and started to rebuild.

I was pretty much on my own, since Alice Waters, my 50-50 partner, was busy at her job at the Montessori school. Our backers, Berkeley lawyers, a special breed, had promised to be our partners, but a few weeks into the reconstruction they decided to pull out of the deal. That hurt us badly, since they had been our construction funding source.

Panicked, Alice and I scraped and begged for cash and managed to cobble together enough to keep going, as long as we did most of the work on an excruciatingly limited budget. We took loans of $300 or $400 from everyone we could, plus help from our families.

Maybe we would have had an easier time if we had been able to explain to them that 40 years on, this little place we were calling Chez Panisse would be regarded as one of the most important restaurants in the history of American dining. But even in Berkeley in the 1970s, that would have been a stretch. Still, this month, while most of the food world fetes the restaurant, it's good to remember that its birth was far from painless.

I got involved in the restaurant because I had been dinner-party friends with Alice and her then-boyfriend, Tom Luddy. They asked me to join them as a partner and run the kitchen because, although Alice had a lot of ideas about food, she had never worked in a restaurant. Nor had I, but I was a talented amateur cook, giving large dinner parties for my academic colleagues, and relatively fearless about new ventures.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsNot what I expected
By Amazon Customer on July 9, 2013
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Silly me, I thought there would be a collection of the best recipes from fabulous Chez Panisse with a bit of history of the restaurant thrown in. Rather, it is a book which goes into rather a lot of detail on the inception and growth of the restaurant set in historical context. It's interesting, with good photography and essays from notable figures, but you would have to be the world's biggest fan of Chez Panisse and Alice Waters (whom I respect greatly) to actually find the book interesting enough to read from cover to cover. No recipes, at least none that I could find! Disappointing from that point of view, but good social commentary of that period in time.
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5.0 out of 5 starseat what alice eats
By Stanley Warmbrodt on October 3, 2011
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you can't go wrong with alice. however, the selling of her book by amazon was a mess, first listing at $25.00 and then upped to $37.50. similar
thing with the new MIETTE baking book. received notice AFTER receiving the long anticipated book that the measurements were wrong. regardless, it is a beautifully designed book. one just wishes they could proof read.
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