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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 motherand herselfFanny 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 |
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Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 02/22/2022 |
Pages: | 336 |
Sales rank: | 667,389 |
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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