Chez Panisse, Inc. pictorial collection [graphic]. ca. 1865-ca. 2006, bulk ca. ca. 1971-ca. 2000.

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Chez Panisse, Inc. pictorial collection [graphic]. ca. 1865-ca. 2006, bulk ca. ca. 1971-ca. 2000.

1865-2006

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Contains photographs and other pictorial material documenting the Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse and the career of its founder Alice Waters. Consists chiefly of snapshots of Chez Panisse staff and events, restaurant views, and miscellaneous persons and events associated with Chez Panisse and/or the food and dining culture of California. Waters' career is documented from the earliest days of the restaurant. Other Waters projects such as Café Fanny and the Edible Schoolyard (at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School, Berkeley) are also depicted, as are various friends, family members and associates. The collection also depicts various parties, street fairs, market and travel scenes, as well as several dishes served at Chez Panisse and elsewhere. In addition to Alice Waters, other noteworthy individuals depicted in the collection include Chez Panisse chefs Lindsey Shere, Paul Bertolli, Jeremiah Tower, Mark Miller, Jean-Pierre Moulle, Patricia Curtan, Victoria Kroyer (later to become Victoria Wise), David Lebovitz, Willie Bishop and Jonathan Waxman. Other individuals pictured in the collection include wine expert Stephen Singer (who was married to Waters from 1985-1997); Waters' and Singer's daughter Fanny Singer; graphic artist David Lance Goines; film producer Tom Luddy (Waters' partner during the early years of Chez Panisse); wine merchant Kermit Lynch; chefs, food writers and restaurateurs such as Marion Cunningham, Elizabeth David, Edna Lewis, James Beard, Paul Prudhomme, Julia Child, Cecilia Chiang, Jacques Pépin, Jerry Budrick, Richard Olney, Wolfgang Puck, Mark Peel, Josephine Aladro and Ruth Reichl; filmmaker Les Blank; and vintners Lulu Peyraud and Jean-Marie Peyraud.

1 carton, 2 boxes, 12 oversize folders (ca. 1600 items, chiefly photographic prints) and 29 negatives : b&w and color; various sizes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7560743

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Cunningham, Marion

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Curtan, Patricia

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Blank, Lester C.

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Goines, David Lance, 1945-

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David Lance Goines is an American artist, calligrapher, typographer, printing entrepreneur, and author. From the description of Words and days, 1994 / David Lance Goines. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 752332913 Weininger was born September 28, 1933 in Ukraine. His family emigrated to the United States in 1950, settling in Chicago. He served in the U.S. Army, graduated from officer candidate school in 1958, and received his B.A. from the University...

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Aladro, Josephine

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David, Elizabeth, 1913-1992

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Budrick, Jerry

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Edible Schoolyard (Berkeley, Calif.)

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Miller, Mark Charles, 1949-

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Peel, Mark, 1959-....

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Corporate History When Alice Waters and a small band of friends founded a neighborhood bistro called Chez Panisse in 1971, they named it after one of the characters in Marcel Pagnol's 1930s film trilogy about two generations of families in the small town Provencal atmosphere of the Marseilles waterfront - an act of homage to the genial comedy, sentiment, and informality of the classic movies in which so much is centered around eating and drin...

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Transferred from the Chez Panisse, Inc. records (BANC MSS 2001/148 c). From the description of Chez Panisse, Inc. pictorial collection [graphic]. ca. 1865-ca. 2006, bulk ca. ca. 1971-ca. 2000. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 459796032 Chez Panisse restaurant was founded by Alice Waters in 1971 in Berkeley, Calif. The upstairs café opened in 1980; Café Fanny opened in 1984. From the description of Chez Panisse records, 1966-2007. (Unive...

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Luddy, Tom.

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Chiang, Cecilia

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