Platter of Figs and Other Recipes

Title: Platter of Figs and Other Recipes Author: David Tanis ISBN: 9781579653460 Publisher: Artisan Published: 2008 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: Used: Near Fine E 1638350 Publisher Description: Forget about getting back to the land, David Tanis just wants you to get back to the kitchen For six months a year, David Tanis is the head chef at Chez Panisse, the Berkeley, California, restaurant where he has worked alongside Alice Waters since the 1980s in creating a revolution in sustainable American cuisine. The other six months, Tanis lives in Paris in a seventeenth-century apartment, where he hosts intimate dinners for friends and paying guests, and prepares the food in a small kitchen equipped with nothing more than an old stove, a little counter space, and a handful of wellused pots and pans. This is the book for anyone who wants to gather and feed friends around a