![]() ![]() One of her teachers was impressed with the singing group and arranged an audition for Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson and the fledgling Motown label. Gladys Horton, the lead singer of the Marvelettes, had formed the girl group when she was 15, with other members of Detroit’s Inkster High School glee club. Postman” by the Marvelettes. It would go on to become the label’s first No. ![]() ![]() On this date in 1961, Motown Records released “Please Mr. She’s written over a dozen food-related books, including Slow Food: The Case for Taste (2004), In the Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart (2010), and Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Countercultural Cook (2017). The set weekend night dinner menu is on the order of a hundred dollars a head now.Īlice Waters has helped to revolutionize ideas about food in the United States, popularizing the practices of eating locally, organically, and sustainably. Soon foodies from all over the country began making pilgrimages to the birthplace of California Cuisine.Ĭhez Panisse began listing on the menu the way it prepared its dishes, and the places where ingredients came from - so these days a Chez Panisse menu lists stuff like “Marin Sun Farms beef tenderloin grilled over vine cuttings” or “king salmon baked in rock salt with wild fennel gratin, new potatoes, and wilted amaranth greens” or “Santa Rosa plum ice cream profiteroles with plum caramel.” It’s still at the same location in Berkeley, but the $3.95 set dinner price tag is a thing of the distant past. But then four years later, Gourmet magazine featured a gushing article about it. There wasn’t much hype around this neighborhood bistro in North Berkeley at first. It had a set menu: pâtés en croûte, salad, duck with olives - and for dessert, an almond tart. And on this day in 1971, Chez Panisse opened its doors. She returned to Berkeley, did a lot of French cooking for her friends, and decided to start a restaurant with a friend also interested in French cuisine, Paul Aratow, a Berkeley professor of comparative literature. It was this immediacy that made those dishes so special.” The trout had just come from the stream and the raspberries from the garden. The chef, a woman, announced the menu: cured ham and melon, trout with almonds, and raspberry tart. During one summer, she traveled to France and had a meal in Brittany, which she says was a huge inspiration for the rest of her life: “I’ve remembered this dinner a thousand times. Waters went to college at Berkeley in the mid-’60s. It was on this day in 1971 that Alice Waters opened her Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse. It’s now considered to be the birthplace of California cuisine, a fusion style where locally grown foods are used to prepare dishes from different traditions around the world, and the resulting dinner is arranged very artistically on the plate. Harmonizing this earth with what we feel above. Which in the winds on the waves doth move, Into a sea profound, of ever-spreading sound.Ĭatching the winds that fan that happy heaven.īut by the instinct of sweet music driven Whilst all the winds with melody are ringing.īorne to the ocean, I float down, around, Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing ![]()
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