Thomas McNamee’s brilliant “Alice Waters and Chez Panisse”. For those of you who don’t know Alice Waters is a true marvel. Widely considered the mother of California Cuisine and one of the greatest Chefs to every live. I strongly recommend this book for anyone who loves food. I plan to write more about Alice and Chez Panisse on my next day off because her approach to food and her philosophy are not far from my own.
I also just picked up MFK Fisher’s “How to Cook a Wolf.” Fisher is one of the best food writers to ever live and only three pages in I can understand why she is regarded that way. She captured my mind with the following line; “Now, when the hideous necessity of the war machine takes steel and cotton and humanity, our own private personal secret mechanism must be stronger, for selfish comfort as well as for the good of the ideals we believe we believe in.” I look forward to writing more on my day off with regard to MFK Fisher and her dalliances in GREATNESS.
Finally, due to be “shut down” or “shot down” early as the case were I also just bought Anthony Bourdain’s “The Nasty Bits.”
I will regal you all with more on these and so many other topics as soon as my time allows. Monday I think but who knows in this topsy turvy world of becoming a great cook.
I will leave you with another thought from Fisher; “It seems plain to us that many things are wrong in the present ones that can be, must be, changed. Our texture of belief has great holes in it. Our pattern lacks pieces.”
Dream Big, inspired and hold fast to what you know is true within your own self. For only you know the power of that truth and what it represents not just to you but also to the world at large.
A la prochaine
SDM
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