Seems like this Friday might be castle day.
Russ Parsons (LA Times) follows Anne Willan, a grande dame of cooking as she picks some of her daily fare at the Santa Monica Farmers Market and reports on her transition from castle of Burgundy to more mundane California dwellings in Anne Willan’s movable feast hits L.A.
She is part of the culinary hall of fame and widely known for her LaVarenne Cooking School as well as a number of books.
The best quoted might be The Good Cook (pictured here) with its very practical orientation around 70 Essential Techniques (illustrated by 250 Step-by-Step Photographs). It is categorized by main ingredients to save you time.
The kind of food bible you keep going back to when you need to hit the ground running.
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Anne Willan is not only the most talented of Chefs and teachers one of the most eloquent voices in the world of cuisine , she appears in my film Monet’s Palate and it would not be the same without her fine contribution.- Aileen Bordman