A cookbook containing world-famous recipes offers information on how to grow specific vegetables, when they are in season, how to select the best produce at the market, how to keep it fresh, and how to cook it to its best advantage.

Reviews

"Casual, unpredictable, delectable - so run the recipes offered up in food visionary Alice Waters." -- Elle "Ms. Waters's accessible recipes...are almost always brief and often inspired." -- New York Times Book Review "Chez Panisse...[is] the most influential American restaurant of the past generation....In the...Waters way of cooking, flavor comes to the fore and technique recedes." -- Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker "Chez Panisse is the single best restaurant in the United States." -- Gourmet