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Six California Kitchens: A Collection of Recipes, Stories, and Cooking Lessons from a Pioneer of California Cuisine
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Author:
Sally Schmitt, Cindy Pawlcyn, Thomas Keller, Troyce Hoffman
Publisher:
Chronicle Books
Date:
April 5, 2022
Sally Schmitt opened The French Laundry in Yountville in 1978 and designed her menus around local, seasonal ingredientsâa novel concept at the time. Sally Schmitt takes us through the six kitchens where she learned to cook, honed her skills, and spent her working life. Six California Kitchens weaves her remarkable story with 115 recipes that distill the ethos of Northern California cooking into simple, delicious dishes, plus evocative imagery, historic ephemera, and cooking wisdom.
What The Reviewers Say
Schmitt died on March 5, just five days after her 90th birthday and a month before the book’s publication. But her forthright, unpretentious presence is very much alive in this beautiful volume filled with food, family, reminiscences, recipes and no-nonsense cooking tips.
This cookbook is a love letter to California cuisine and six of the kitchens Schmitt worked in...paired with 115 total recipes—sure to inspire home cooks as well as buffs of American culinary history.
[A] cookbook-memoir that’s humble, proud, and filled with family.
[A] sumptuous collection of recipes and tales from the kitchens that inspired them.
