On Apr 17, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Alan Rudy wrote:
> Doug, have you eaten at Chez Panisse? or the Greens Restaurant?
Had lunch at Chez Panisse once, about five years ago. I was really disappointed. That kind of cuisine might have been revolutionary when Waters was first on the scene, but she's spawned so many imitators that it just didn't do it for me.
I can't remember the name of the French chef who made that critique of Waters, but there's a truth in its nastiness. I got a Chez Panisse cookbook years ago and was floored by the 10 or 15 pages on lettuces. They were all of a kind that I couldn't get on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, one of the best neighborhoods for retail food shopping in the USA. If I couldn't get 'em, who could? Only people who grew them in their Berkeley backyards, I guess.
Doug