Chez Panisse Cooking, paperback (Paul Bertolli, Alice Waters)

In Chez Panisse Cooking, chef Paul Bertolli presents the Chez Panisse kitchen's explorations and reexaminations of earlier triumphs. Expanding upon the concepts that have made Chez Panisse legendary, Bertolli provides reflections, recipes, and menus that lead the cook to a critical and intuitive understanding of food itself, of its purest organic sources and most sublime uses. Perhaps best described by Richard Olney, "Paul Bertolli's cuisine is what 'health food' should be and never is: a celebration of purity. The food is imaginative but never complicated; it is art."