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 Stories About: Alice Waters AND books AND food AND green living
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Edible Media: Celebrity chefs tell all
Or, why the Vanity Fair treatment doesn't do justice to food history. |
Tom Philpott |
27 Sep 2006 |
Gristmill |
| It's the 1970s in Berkeley, California, and things are getting raunchy in the kitchen of Chez Panisse, where the cooks are busy revolutionizing high-end U.S. restaurant food -- among other activities: As dealers started showing up at the back door with regularity, [one cook] and some of his acquaintances got into increasingly harder stuff. 'We were doing opium stuffing,' he says. 'You stick it up your ass. Just a quarter of a gram, a little ball, and you bypass the ali ... |
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| Topics: Alice Waters, books, food, green living (all these topics) |
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