Alice Waters in Town Today for Book Signing

Top chef and founding father of the locavore food movement, Alice Waters is in town today to promote her new book, In the Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart.

It’s a cookbook that should be a companion to any farmer’s market goer.  Waters draws upon her nearly forty years of experience at the helm of Chez Panisse, the Berkeley, California bastion of haute couture sustainable and local cooking.  She is also the founder of the Edible Schoolyard, a garden and kitchen classroom for middle school students, and Slow Food USA, a nonprofit dedicated to “linking the pleasures of food with the community and the environment.”

In the Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart seeks to translate this ethos for the home kitchen with more than 50 seasonal recipes covering the basics of cookery (e.g. roasting a chicken, steaming vegetables, making stock, filleting a fish, cooking fruit).  You can also check out http://alicewatersgreenkitchen.com/ for a collection of video recipes from her highly decorated peers like Momofuku’s David Chang and Per Se’s Thomas Keller.

Stop by Book Court (163 Court Street (between Pacific & Dean))–a gem of an independent bookstore in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn—at 7pm to hear Alice Waters share some of her recipes and sign copies of In the Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart.  Then go out and explore the “new Brooklyn cuisine,” restaurants that take local, organic, sustainably farmed ingredients as seriously as the Gospel.  One prime example is nearby Frankies 457 Court Street Spuntino, recently featured in Food & Wine.

[Photo by Sbocaj]

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