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Always Home: A Daughter’s Culinary Memoir Kindle Edition
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Fanny Singer
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Alice Waters
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"Singer's memoir, Always Home: A Daughter's Recipes & Stories, is a tender portrait of the woman better known to the world as the mother of the farm-to-table movement." --Chloe Malle, Vogue, "The 5 Best Books of 2020 (So Far)" "You will probably pick up this book because you're curious about how it feels to grow up with Alice Waters as your mother. But you will inevitably be captivated by Fanny Singer's sensuous voice and sensible soul. The writing's lovely, but more than that, Fanny has struck a kind of brutal honesty that is extremely rare and completely beautiful. Her writing makes you want to taste every flavor she describes, and soon you'll be dashing into the kitchen to make watercress soup, wild fennel cakes, and breakfast pudding. But the really important thing is that I'm pretty sure everyone who reads it will come away with the same feeling that I have: Why don't I live my life like this? How can I do better? I love this book." --RUTH REICHL, author of Save Me the Plums "A charming and unique almost-love story, almost-memoir, with predictably fabulous recipes." --MARK BITTMAN, author of How to Cook Everything "To read Fanny Singer's intimate and honest memoir is like having a mouthful of jewels. After fourteen years of cooking with her and her mother, Alice Waters, I got to know her even better through her perfect book. Singer's writing reminds me about everything important to me in life, the four f 's: friends, food, family, and fun."--CLAIRE PTAK, owner of Violet Bakery in London and author of The Violet Bakery Cookbook "Fanny Singer's joyful, witty, and loving encounter with American genius inside the home and in the world heralds the arrival of a new voice, one that understands the pleasure to be found in discovery, and the ever evolving mystery embedded in the known. A book like no other, an instant classic." --HILTON ALS, staff writer, The New Yorker
"In this wondrous memoir-cookbook hybrid . . . Singer's language is read-out-loud luscious, and her culinary coming-of-age story savory and sweet." --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "This heartwarming, feel-good, highly recommended memoir will appeal to fans of cooking, culinary travels, and family ties." --Library Journal "Singer's charming narrative, interwoven with Lacombe's painterly black-and-white photographs, bursts with sensuous descriptions of tastes, fragrances, and textures as she recounts her "very rich and full and just a little bit unconventional" young life . . . . An intimate homage to an iconic restaurateur." --Kirkus Reviews "Singer tells her own tale and that of her influential mother, tying the two together with their love of food and knack for powerful storytelling." --Town & Country ("6 Best Books to Read This March") --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
"In this wondrous memoir-cookbook hybrid . . . Singer's language is read-out-loud luscious, and her culinary coming-of-age story savory and sweet." --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "This heartwarming, feel-good, highly recommended memoir will appeal to fans of cooking, culinary travels, and family ties." --Library Journal "Singer's charming narrative, interwoven with Lacombe's painterly black-and-white photographs, bursts with sensuous descriptions of tastes, fragrances, and textures as she recounts her "very rich and full and just a little bit unconventional" young life . . . . An intimate homage to an iconic restaurateur." --Kirkus Reviews "Singer tells her own tale and that of her influential mother, tying the two together with their love of food and knack for powerful storytelling." --Town & Country ("6 Best Books to Read This March") --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
About the Author
FANNY SINGER is a writer, editor, and co-founder of the design brand, Permanent Collection. In 2013, she received a Ph.D. on the subject of the British pop artist Richard Hamilton's late work from the University of Cambridge. In 2015, she and her mother, Alice Waters, published My Pantry, which she also illustrated. Having spent more than a decade living in the United Kingdom, Fanny recently moved back to her native California. Based in San Francisco, she travels widely, contributing art reviews and culture writing to a number of publications including Frieze, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, Apartamento, T Magazine, and Art Papers, among others.
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Book Description
A cookbook and culinary memoir about growing up as the daughter of revered chef/restaurateur Alice Waters
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From the Publisher
Fanny is the only person able to document the personal, unique and affectionate relationship she has with her mother. She has worked in countless restaurants, including her mother's, from an early age and can include recipes both influenced by her mother and brought up-to-date for a contemporary audience.
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Review
[A] lovely memoir - The iA hymn of praise to simple home-cooked food - The Times
--This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
Product details
- ASIN : B077QR82HF
- Publisher : Seven Dials; 1st edition (4 June 2020)
- Language : English
- File size : 43265 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 337 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: 441,821 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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S C.
2.0 out of 5 stars
a lovely book, but very disappointed with the black-and-white photos
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 July 2020Verified Purchase
It's beautifully written and creates a lovely atmosphere. But this is undermined by the printing of the photographs - why are they not in colour? This gives a miserable austerity-feel to what is actually a life-affirming cookbook/memoir. The pictures give no incentive to make the recipes. Such a shame - this lovely book is really spoiled by this!
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Janet
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good service
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 January 2021Verified Purchase
great product, speedy delivery!

Aime Sundal
2.0 out of 5 stars
Hunting for recipes
Reviewed in the United States on 21 April 2020Verified Purchase
This was a disappointment. The recipes are imbedded in the narrative; I found them difficult to follow. If you are interested in her story, you might want to buy this book, but if you are more into the recipes, skip it.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Always Home
Reviewed in the United States on 14 October 2020Verified Purchase
I found Fanny Singer's memoir rather boring and strange as it's basically a book that's all about her enormous love for her mother Alice Waters really a love story addressed to her mother which I found very odd.. There was nothing negative about her mother, nothing about her parents divorce, and very little about Fanny's life just how wonderful her Mom is. My husband and I went to Chez Panisse once, even though it had been open for years at that point , it was enormously to difficult to get a reservation. The food was good, but not extraordinary, yes Waters has been involved in various sustainable food programs, honored by Obama and various others, very into farm fresh and organic food, but she was never trained as a chef, and except for Chez P she never had other restaurant experience. Initially it was a hippie enclave, but she managed to get some very good farmers involved and some excellent chefs, but there are plenty of other very restaurants.It almost made me want to gag with Fanny's extremely strong idealization of her mom, and her overpowering love for her mom, is so much that this book is really is love story to Alice Waters, and rather annoying, and yet not dealing with various aspects of Alice's or Fanny life.
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Catie Vodicka
5.0 out of 5 stars
THIS IS A TRULY BEAUTIFUL READ...
Reviewed in the United States on 11 April 2020Verified Purchase
I loved absolutely everything about this book. If you are a fan of Alice Waters, then you are, automatically, a fan of her daughter, Fanny Singer. A lovely memoir about growing up in the glow of one of our most revered chefs and founder of Chez Panisse. Frequent visits to France add to the flavor of the author's offerings as she imparts the specifics of an unusual upbringing by a loving and creative "family" of biological relatives and close friends. As a bonus, recipes are included! I can attest to the divine success of roasting a chicken as per the instructions given on page 57. There are beautiful photographs, as well. This book will forever reside within my library of cookbooks.
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