(*NEW ARRIVAL*) (Chez Panisse) Bertolli, Paul & Alice Waters. Chez Panisse Cooking. *Signed*

Bookplate SIGNED by Alice Waters mounted to the half-title. Illus. from photographs by Gail Skoff. Jacket. First Edition. NY: Random House, 1988.

In Chez Panisse Cooking, chef Paul Bertolli -- one of the most talented chefs ever to work with Alice Waters -- presents the Chez Panisse kitchen's explorations and reexaminations of earlier triumphs. Expanding upon -- and sometimes simplifying -- 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."

Fine.

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