Welcome to Litsy!

Listened to it and was entertaining enough! Not extremely memorable for me, but it was a nice listen.

Loved this book so much.

.If you are looking for a history of Chez Panisse , this isn‘t it , she basically addresses its founding in the last 60 pages .This is more about how she became a person who could open such a place.She is so generous in her acknowledgment that friends, lovers , travel,& experiences all contributed to her learning things about the world to inform her idea of creating a unique type of restaurant.The style of the book , friends chatting over coffee.

Well, we all do what we can.don‘t think I‘ve even got to 10 hours in a #24b4monday still, hanging out on Litsy ,checking everybody‘s progress & snacks , nothing bad about that! Finished 2 books. #MrBook1inamillion
#litsypartyofone #readathon Huzzah! @MrBook
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My #redcover choice , still on my TBR #fallisbooked
I‘m overdue to read some food related book, maybe I will start this one.

A good book about how one person created a local food movement. Alice Waters had an interesting life.

I felt very disconnected with the author and her experiences, which definitely tanked my enjoyment of the book. And I was hoping for more of what inspired her to cook, which really wasn‘t what this book is about. Her voice as an audiobook narrator also wasn‘t my style, which didn‘t help things. Maybe someone who is into counterculture or someone who is more interested in Alice Waters as a person would enjoy this more.

This book helped me think about looking each thing you do do in life as a way to connect, find beauty and meaning. It solidified that connection to others can be full of surprises and change your life in ways you never could have imagined. Overall I liked it and many parts influenced me, but I wouldn‘t recommend it unless you are a fan of Alice Waters. 📸My mom teaching my kids one of her new recipes

“What‘s endlessly fascinating To me about cooking and eating is the biodiversity of the planet. The depth of the abundance of the earth...Everything in this country changed with fast food...We wanted year round availability, we wanted food for cheap. And when you achieve all that, you take away everything—You lose touch with nature, and you exist in the hollow place, Devoid of beauty and nourishment.”

“It‘s great when someone you admire draws your attention to something, and suddenly you see it for the first time. Sometimes you need a friend who has great taste to help you see that something has beauty and value.”

I am extremely cozy in bed reading about Alice Water‘s adventures in France 🇫🇷. The BIG dilemma is do I brave walking across the cold floor to get a second cup of coffee ☕️???Decisions,decisions😬

”I was lucky to be out in nature so much as a child thanks to aunt Ina and my mother. They showed me the beauty of the spring bulbs coming up, the fall leaves, and trees all covered with ice and winter, sparkling in the lamp light. I really believe that nature is everybody‘s mother and I think our disconnection from it is the is in for so many of the problems we have now.”🌲🌳🌵🌾🍃🍁🍂

Tea, popcorn and a memoir= perfect bed picnic 🤓

I enjoyed Water‘s tone more than anything else. I have never before read anyone‘s prose that we‘re capable of being resoundingly frank (bordering on blunt) and yet at the same time flowery and romantic. I love that she is/was so fearless and was able to tap into a time and place populated with people both counter and cultured. It makes me want to dust off some of my own vestige dreams and daring ideas....

Enjoying this immensely. I LOVE her voice. She makes even some of the less than brilliant (and bordering on totally stupid) things she has done seem like good ideas and definitely worth it. I am not that fearless and look on as much confused as I am in awe of such free spirits.

Starting this today. Recommend by the same friend who put the Signature of all Things in my hands.

Meh. I was just bored.

#seasonsreadings2017 day 2: #view
My view at the moment. The kids are busy drawing and crafting something. And I'm trying to do a bit of reading. What are you up to today?

A low temp-baked salmon, oven-roasted broccoli and mini peppers with potato wedges and a book I downloaded a few days ago but haven't gotten to yet

Great audiobook!!!

A pick, with reservations. Alice Waters reads her own memoir #audiobook and her voice is weak and tremulous throughout. I usually listen at 1.25 speed, but had to increase to 1.5 to make it more pleasant. Content rambles back and forth in time and some bits are more interesting than others. If you are keen on travel & food writing, and especially women chefs, then I recommend this.

I brought the slow food culture of France home. That's why I got the Legion of Honour, I think, because I was preserving and expressing something of the culture that the French thought was valuable. That doesn't mean there weren't times in the late 70s and early 80s when French patrons would come to Chez Panisse and say, "Euuh, that's not cooking, that's shopping."

I love slow food, Chez Panisse, Alice Waters cookbooks and recipes, etc., but I've always been a little uncertain about how I feel about Alice Waters the person, I guess based on my perception that she has a bit of a privileged/pretentious vibe. Not sure yet if that has changed after reading this memoir, but I did really enjoy the stories she told about her formative years and have huge respect for her contributions to American food culture.

This is my favorite lunchtime reading spot on the 3rd floor of our library, on a comfy seat (with plugs for your computer) overlooking the interior courtyard where there are often readings, free lunch concerts from the Symphony musicians and just generally green space in the center of the city. #2017LibraryOfTheYear #NPL

Just checked out this audiobook- looking forward to the drive home! #TbrList #AliceWaters #BooksandFood

I've long been a fan of Alice Waters and have several of her books. The most recent ones offer a little bit of insight into her life but I haven't found much out there about her backstory. This memoir changes that. I love that Alice does the audio. I'll definitely have to check out a print copy for the recipes and photos.

While baby sleeps I am diving into this. And all I want to do is eat at Chez Panisse, garden and cook.

Alice Waters opened the legendary Chez Panisse in 1971 & neither the cuisine of California, nor the Western world, have been the same. Here Waters puts together the pieces – female friendships & male lovers, childhood memories & adult journeys, music and art and France and the 60‘s – that brought her to her legacy on Shattuck Avenue. Lovely and nostalgic with the hope of the last century, it will whet an appetite for beauty and change. - Jocelyn

Not sure how I'm just now learning that there is a soon-to-be-released Alice Waters memoir...but 💃💃💃!!!