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40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering Audible Audiobook – Abridged

Alice Waters (Author, Narrator), The Kitchen Sisters (Publisher)

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40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering, is an audiobook collaboration between legendary food pioneer Alice Waters and NPR's Kitchen Sisters. Alice narrates the saga of her trailblazing restaurant and the food movement it helped spawn, along with the voices of some 50 of her collaborators and friends. Peabody Award-winning radio producers The Kitchen Sisters bring their signature, richly layered audio style to Alice's powerful story of the life and founding of Chez Panisse. Told decade by decade, this compelling tale of food and political transformation opens in the tumultuous 1960s and travels across 40 years, tracing how a small neighborhood restaurant in Berkeley, California, helped ignite a movement for edible education and local, organic, and delicious food.

Along with Alice we hear from dozens of people who have helped create the food movement, including Wendell Berry, Calvin Trillin, Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser, Ruth Reichl, Marion Cunningham, Edna Lewis, Maira Kalman, Anna Deavere Smith, Hillary Clinton, Slow Food President Carlo Petrini, theater impresario Peter Sellars, farmer Bob Cannard, and many more - including chefs, farmers, gardeners, restaurateurs, artists, musicians, and writers. These voices are mixed with readings, interviews, music, sound, archival audio and field recordings captured by The Kitchen Sisters over decades of chronicling Alice's travels and efforts. Lively, inspiring and soulful, this audiobook is over six hours of story spanning 40 years in the life of a pioneering and visionary restaurant and the woman who dreamed it up.

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Listening Length	6 hours and 1 minute
Author	Alice Waters
Narrator	Alice Waters
Audible.com.au Release Date	14 December 2012
Publisher	The Kitchen Sisters
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Abridged
Language	English
ASIN	B00NPB3DL4
Best Sellers Rank	101,895 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 81 in Californian Food 81 in Gastronomy (Audible Books & Originals) 107 in Cooking

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Robert R.

Even if You Own the Book Version

Reviewed in the United States on 15 July 2013

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Even if you own the book version, don't overlook the audio version from Audible.com -- it's incredible. Hear the people in the book come to life. Even Marian Cunningham and others who have passed on are in there talking away, so they must have been working on it forever. It's wonderful, fascinating, and less than $5. Highly recommended.

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Tanya

Beautiful, very well done book!

Reviewed in the United States on 13 December 2018

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Gave this book to a friend who just opened a restaurant called “Gather”.

Delisa Toole

I want to celebrate birthdays.

Reviewed in the United States on 14 January 2013

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This book is amazing. Buy it.
Alice has modeled "The Power of Gathering" for 40 years.
Her celebration of milestones on this journey are captivating.

This book makes you want to mark the special moments in the passions you pursue. Don't let time click by, take the time to stop, invite the people who have shared in your work, and celebrate together your contributions to make an impact in the world.

Alice models celebrating what you do in life, with the ones you do life with.

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RAND H.

A Sumptuous Feast....

Reviewed in the United States on 24 August 2011

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Just spent the afternoon with this gorgeous book and feel as if I've whiled away the day lingering over a sparkling champagne lunch with Alice and friends. I've only had the pleasure of dining with them once - what a shame, considering the many trips I've made to San Francisco. I had expected a book of essays with pictures sprinkled throughout but instead found a virtual trip back in time, a beautiful, evocative picturebook with essays sprinkled here and there. If you're expecting recipes, I'd recommend one of the many Chez Panisse cookbooks as there isn't a recipe to be found here. And you won't mind, either. Worth every penny. I'm ready to start packing for a quick trip to Berkley. Merci beaucoup, Alice!

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