I love cooking. Do you like to cook?
I do like to cook, but prefer great restaurants like Chez Panisse.
Oh I have never heard of that place.
Chez Panisse
Chez Panisse is a Berkeley, California, restaurant, known as one of the inspirations for the style of cooking known as California cuisine. Restaurateur, author and food activist Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in 1971 with film producer Paul Aratow, then professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. The restaurant emphasises ingredients rather than technique and has developed a supply network of direct relationships with local farmers, ranchers and dairies.
History.
In 1971, Paul Aratow and Alice Waters founded Chez Panisse
cooking, which he described "as my secret passion," after his wife entered politics, likening the recipes he found to the "Dead Sea Scrolls." In an interview Orr noted, "Recipes were like the Dead Sea Scrolls...Kay's a great cook, but I realized with her involvement in politics that if I was going to have home cooking, I was going to have to do it myself."
In October 1988, Orr publicly announced the upcoming release of his cookbook, which became his first