Alice Waters and the Trip to Delicious by Jacqueline Briggs Martin

They will be all the better for your wait. I promise you that those supermarket tomatoes in the middle of winter are not going to taste good! You don't want to eat the same second-rate foods all year round that aren't delicious-you want to wait for the juicy tomatoes and sweet corn in the heat of summer. Who knows what you are going to like? Always have a taste of everything-and remember that ripeness is all! You never forget the taste of a perfectly ripe peach. If you grow it and cook it yourself, you're going to want to eat it-even kale! 2) Taste and taste again. Time magazine named her among '100 Most Influential People in the World' in 2014.ĪFTERWORD by Alice Waters: Dear Reader and Eater, I hope you have liked hearing my story! Here are some things I have learned about food and cooking from my time at Chez Panisse and the Edible Schoolyard-and from my daughter Fanny: 1) Grow your own food. She won the James Beard Award for Best Chef in 1992 and Chez Panisse was named the Best Restaurant in America by Gourmet in 2001. Alice Waters founded Chez Panisse restaurant in 1971 and the Edible Schoolyard in 1995. Alice Waters and the Trip to Delicious is the second of the author's Food Heroes series on people who changed what and how we eat, after the award-winning Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table. Jacqueline Briggs Martin, author of the Caldecott winner, Snowflake Bentley, teams up with Hayelin Choi, making her illustration debut, to show how one child's search for delicious led to a dream for all children to share the joy of tasty food-the same joy we get from a beautiful song, or a starry sky. For Alice, a delicious meal does not start in the kitchen, but in the fields with good soil and caring farmers. The search for good food led Alice Waters to France, and then back to Berkeley, California, where she started Chez Panisse restaurant and the Edible Schoolyard. Chef Alice Waters has always been friends with food.

Alice Waters and the Trip to Delicious by Jacqueline Briggs Martin