Writing Worth Reading
Writing Worth Reading
Alice Waters is the woman who globalised the whole fresh groceries thing. She started the farmer’s market movement with her emphasis on organically produced food that tastes wonderful, and her recipes are very simple but inspiring, because you think if you do cook seasonally your food is going to taste good.
Let’s move on to Alice Waters, who, like Deborah Madison, owns a restaurant in California – in Berkley to be precise. Her book is called Chez Panisse Vegetables.
All the Chez Panisse books are great: it’s hard to choose one. But Chez Panisse Vegetables is great because Alice Waters is the woman who globalised the whole fresh groceries thing. She started the farmer’s market movement with her emphasis on organically produced food that tastes wonderful, and her recipes are very simple but inspiring, because you think if you do cook seasonally your food is going to taste good. She was very much inspired by Richard Olney.
Did they know each other?
They did. He was quite reclusive but he had some friends.
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Jojo Tulloh is food editor of The Week, and author of Freshly Picked: Kitchen Garden Cooking in the City, which brings together stories and recipes inspired by Jojo’s eight-year tenure of an allotment in Leyton, East London. She talks to FiveBooks about her favourite recipe books, and their writers.
