Chez Panisse records, 1966-2007.

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Chez Panisse records, 1966-2007.

Contains selected files from Chez Panisse restaurant and café and from Café Fanny in Berkeley, Calif. Included are organizational documents; correspondence with chefs, cookbook authors, and others; board and staff meeting minutes; daily, weekly, and special menus; cookbook drafts; material about professional and charity events; and publicity about the restaurants, owner Alice Waters, and Chez Panisse chefs and staff. Also include miscellaneous records pertaining to opening a restaurant at the Louvre in Paris, France. (cartons 23-26).

Records : 26 cartons, 9 boxes, 13 oversize boxes, 7 oversize folders, 1 oversize package, 2 tubes (circa 40 linear feet)Videos : 9 videocassettes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7655428

UC Berkeley Libraries

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Olney, Richard

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Chez Panisse Café.

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Online Archive of California

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Chez Panisse

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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...

Café Fanny.

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Fisher, M.F.K. (Mary Frances Kennedy), 1908-1992

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Author M.F.K. Fisher wrote mainly about food. For biographical information, see M.F.K. Fisher, A Life in Letters: Correspondence, 1929-1991 (1997). Doris Tobias was a freelance food and wine writer. From the description of Letter of M.F.K. Fisher, 1985. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 472792486 Author M.F.K. Fisher wrote mainly about food. For biographical information, see M.F.K. Fisher, A Life in Letters: Correspondence, 1929-1991 (1997). Janet Fries is a lawyer p...

Waters, Alice

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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...