California Dish
Subtitle: What I Saw (and Cooked) at the American Culinary Revolution
Publisher: Free Press
Published: August 4, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780743228442
Subjects: Cooks; Regional & Ethnic - American - California Style; Cookery, American; Biography / Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Personal Memoirs; Biography/Autobiography; Literary; Cooking; Biography & Autobiography / General; Tower, Jeremiah; Biography; California style; American cooking
First sentence: CALIFORNIA CUISINE, as it came to be heralded in the national media, might never have been discovered if it weren't for a bunch of pushy French chefs.
Description: Recounts the rise and fall and rise again of the award-winning chef who revolutionized modern American cooking, including his job at Chez Panisse, his international success, and his opinions regarding his competitors.