have had music and dancing and people eating with their hands and very a lot of informality. ken: a bunch of these berkeley students, kinda hippies, you know, it was a place for like, poetry readings. it was a coffee house, you know? there were no chefs involved early on. alice was her boyfriend was a film guy. and, you know, she d been to france a couple of times. ruth: she had had this epiphany. she had been to france. she had eaten in all these little bistros. she had fallen in love with the food. basically, it was just, i want to make this little restaurant for my friends. john: she was not a scholar of cooking in the way jeremiah was. i mean, jeremiah used to love reading ancient cookbooks and treatises on food. alice was more of an instinctual cook. [ cheers and applause ] james: i don t think those people knew what they were
country is how very disconnected, uh, what was happening in american restaurants was. a lot of the newspapers around the country did not have food sections. people were by and large very unaware of who the chefs were. there was no internet. there were not even fax machines at the beginning of this story. so, a lot of what happened in individual cities and individual areas was very self contained. and then, in the bay area, up in berkeley, was this little restaurant called chez panisse that opened in 1971. it had a bumpy road at the beginning, but over time, became, for a number of reasons, a very important restaurant in this country. jeremiah: i didn t really know anything about chez panisse in berkeley when michael palmer saw the ad in the newspaper.
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sections. people were by and large very unaware of who the chefs were. there was no internet. there were not even fax machines at the beginning of this story. so, a lot of what happened in individual cities and individual areas was very self contained. and then, in the bay area, up in berkeley, was this little restaurant called chez panisse that opened in 1971. it had a bumpy road at the beginning, but over time, became, for a number of reasons, a very important restaurant in this country. jeremiah: i didn t really know anything about chez panisse in berkeley when michael palmer saw the ad in the newspaper. he showed it to me and said, go do it. well, if i hadn t been so broke, i would never have paid any attention. so when i landed in the entrance to the kitchen door, applied for a job at chez panisse in berkeley, it was alice waters little dream restaurant. alice: it has to be a lot of fun, and that s why we always
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