Fanny Singer. (2020). Always Home: A Daughter's Recipes & Stories. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Fanny Singer. 2020. Always Home: A Daughter's Recipes & Stories. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Fanny Singer, Always Home: A Daughter's Recipes & Stories. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2020.

Fanny Singer. Always Home: A Daughter's Recipes & Stories. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2020.

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   • bioText: FANNY SINGER is a writer, editor, and co-founder of the design brand, Permanent Collection. In 2013, she received a Ph.D. on the subject of the British pop artist Richard Hamilton's late work from the University of Cambridge. In 2015, she and her mother, Alice Waters, published My Pantry, which she also illustrated. Having spent more than a decade living in the United Kingdom, Fanny recently moved back to her native California. Based in San Francisco, she travels widely, contributing art reviews and culture writing to a number of publications including Frieze, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, Apartamento, T Magazine, and Art Papers, among others.
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A cookbook and culinary memoir about growing up as the daughter of revered chef/restaurateur Alice Waters: a story of food, family, and the need for beauty in all aspects of life.
In this extraordinarily intimate portrait of her mother—and herself—Fanny Singer, daughter of food icon and activist Alice Waters, chronicles a unique world of food, wine, and travel; a world filled with colorful characters, mouth-watering traditions, and sumptuous feasts. Across dozens of vignettes with accompanying recipes, she shares the story of her own culinary coming of age and reveals a side of her legendary mother that has never been seen before. A charming, smart translation of Alice Waters's ideals and attitudes about food for a new generation, Always Home is a loving, often funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely written look at a life defined in so many ways by food, as well as the bond between mother and daughter.

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   • source: RUTH REICHL, author of Save Me the Plums
   • content: "You will probably pick up this book because you're curious about how it feels to grow up with Alice Waters as your mother. But you will inevitably be captivated by Fanny Singer's sensuous voice and sensible soul. The writing's lovely, but more than that, Fanny has struck a kind of brutal honesty that is extremely rare and completely beautiful. Her writing makes you want to taste every flavor she describes, and soon you'll be dashing into the kitchen to make watercress soup, wild fennel cakes, and breakfast pudding. But the really important thing is that I'm pretty sure everyone who reads it will come away with the same feeling that I have: Why don't I live my life like this? How can I do better? I love this book."
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   • source: MARK BITTMAN, author of How to Cook Everything
   • content: "A charming and unique almost–love story, almost-memoir, with predictably fabulous recipes."
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   • source: CLAIRE PTAK, owner of Violet Bakery in London and author of The Violet Bakery Cookbook
   • content: "To read Fanny Singer's intimate and honest memoir is like having a mouthful of jewels. After fourteen years of cooking with her and her mother, Alice Waters, I got to know her even better through her perfect book. Singer's writing reminds me about everything important to me in life, the four f 's: friends, food, family, and fun."
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     December 1, 2019
     Alice Waters' daughter recalls growing up with an abundance of food, beauty, and warmth. Swaddled in dish towels and set inside a huge salad bowl, newborn Singer (co-author, with Waters: My Pantry, 2015) was a regular visitor at Chez Panisse, her mother's famed Berkeley restaurant, while Waters conferred with the manager or tasted dishes. "I don't remember this, of course," Singer writes, "but I feel like my disproportionate love of salad might have something to do with my early kitchen cribs." Singer's charming narrative, interwoven with Lacombe's painterly black-and-white photographs, bursts with sensuous descriptions of tastes, fragrances, and textures as she recounts her "very rich and full and just a little bit unconventional" young life. Her remarkable school lunches featured greens with vinaigrette, kiwi in orange juice, and garlic toast that her classmates coveted. At home, even breakfast was transcendent: "a perfectly soft-boiled blue Araucana egg, with a marigold-hued liquid center into which I would delight in plunging buttered toast 'soldiers.'" Instructions for making this dish, along with 59 other recipes--her mother's garlicky noodle soup, her grandfather's special pancakes, and, not surprisingly, several salads--add delectable details to the colorful narrative. Although sweet confections sometimes appeared for dessert--there are recipes for persimmon pudding and quince meringue ice cream--more likely the end of a meal was "the most perfect handful of raspberries" from their own garden or the sweetest fig. Only a perfectly ripe fruit met her mother's exacting standards. Singer's culinary adventures with her parents took her to the south of France as well as on a research trip of France's great restaurants and wineries; her father, she adds, is "a committed oenophile and professional wine merchant." Because neither parent spoke French, Singer, who went to a bilingual French school, served as official interpreter at age 9. Waters, who has been the subject of much media attention and multiple books, including her own memoir, Coming to My Senses (2017), is lovingly portrayed throughout Singer's book. Her mother, writes the author, "is at once a kind of spiritual compass and a salve." An intimate homage to an iconic restaurateur.

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     Starred review from January 13, 2020
     In this wondrous memoir-cookbook hybrid, Singer (My Pantry), 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.

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     February 1, 2020
     

     Equal parts memoir and cookbook, this new book from Singer (My Pantry) offers a loving tribute to her influential mother, Alice Waters, a James Beard Award winner and executive chef at Chez Panisse. Through intimate family stories and recipes, Singer recalls growing up in the family-centered atmosphere of Chez Panisse, where mingling in the kitchen with cooks and their children was the norm. She revisits her parent's separation around age ten when her mother provided comfort through her school lunch: a homemade, elegant meal always accompanied by a bouquet of flowers and herbs evoking a spring garden. Unsatisfied with Yale's food accommodations, her mother installed a chef's starter kitchen in her daughter's dorm room, subsequently establishing the university's first sustainable food program. Much attention is also given to the family's frequent culinary travels in France; going from Paris to rural locales, from vineyards to top restaurants, staying with friends and learning about terroir. Included are 60 recipes. VERDICT This heartwarming, feel-good, highly recommended memoir will appeal to fans of cooking, culinary travels, and family ties.--David Miller, Farmville P.L., NC

     Copyright 2020 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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