‘Always Home’ by Fanny Singer

‘Always Home’ by Fanny Singer

WHO: Fanny Singer

WHAT: ALWAYS HOME
A Daughter’s Recipes and Stories

WHEN: Published by Knopf March 31, 2020

WHERE: The author lives in San Francisco.

WHY: “A wondrous memoir-cookbook.
“Fanny Singer, daughter of Chez Panisse founder Alice Waters, recalls her upbringing in the restaurant business. Above all, she writes, the book is a celebration of her mother. Waters’s signature passions are highlighted: the Edible Schoolyard Project, open-fire cooking (whether inside the restaurant or the governor’s mansion), and the Chez Panisse children’s book (which featured an eight-year-old Singer).
“Waters’s quirks are revealed: her tendency to drink from bowls rather than mugs and to ‘jettison her silverware and delve in with her fingers,’ expressing ‘a primal impulse to be closer to the thing she was eating, to be more sensuously acquainted.’ The appreciation of beauty, ‘the total fabric of my existence,’ and flavor, ‘the prism through which most things were seen or dissected or understood,’ guide their summers in Provence, food-and-wine tours of the Pyrenees, and a ‘special tasting in the caves of Krug, the illustrious champagne house.’ A final mother-daughter road trip from Telluride, Colo., to Berkeley before graduate school has them bonding and collaborating on impromptu meals (a recipe for egg fettuccine boiled in river water and tossed with tomatoes and parmesan is one of dozens throughout the book).
“Singer’s language is read-out-loud luscious, and her culinary coming-of-age story savory and sweet.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, a starred review

“An intimate homage to an iconic restaurateur.”
—KIRKUS REVIEWS

“Heartwarming, feel-good, highly recommended.”
—David Miller, LIBRARY JOURNAL

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Knopf. Foreword by Alice Waters.
With 54 photos by Brigitte Lacombe
336 pages. $35 ISBN 978-1-5247-3251-6

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