California Cuisine
California Cuisine is a style of cooking that combines cooking styles and ingredients from different food cultures and emphasizes the use of fresh, seasonal ingredients from the region. The origin of California cuisine is traced back to Alice Waters , who founded the Californian restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley in the 1970s . After experimenting with different cooking styles, Alice Waters increasingly emphasized the use of regional ingredients. Typical of this style of cooking is the use of seafood and fresh vegetables, which are only lightly cooked, as well as the use of fresh fruits and herbs that can be obtained locally.
background
Several chefs have contributed significantly to the success of California cuisine. These include Jeremiah Tower , who was for a time head chef at Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California. He ran several restaurants in California with great success. The Austrian Wolfgang Puck is one of the fans of Cuisine California , who among other things organized prominent events - such as parties on the occasion of the Oscar awards. However, Alice Waters is still considered the most prominent representative of this kitchen direction.
literature
- Joan Reardon: MFK Fisher, Julia Child and Alice Waters - Celebrating the pleasures of the table , Harmony Books, New York 1994, ISBN 0-517-57748-8