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Always Home: A Daughter's Recipes & Stories: Foreword by Alice Waters Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Fanny Singer (Author, Narrator), Alice Waters (Author, Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)
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A cookbook and culinary memoir about growing up as the daughter of revered chef/restaurateur Alice Waters: a story of food, family, and the need for beauty in all aspects of life.

In this extraordinarily intimate portrait of her mother - and herself - Fanny Singer, daughter of food icon and activist Alice Waters, chronicles a unique world of food, wine, and travel; a world filled with colorful characters, mouth-watering traditions, and sumptuous feasts. Across dozens of vignettes with accompanying recipes, she shares the story of her own culinary coming of age and reveals a side of her legendary mother that has never been seen before. A charming, smart translation of Alice Waters' ideals and attitudes about food for a new generation, Always Home is a loving, often funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely written look at a life defined in so many ways by food, as well as the bond between mother and daughter.

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  1. Listening Length
    8 hours and 41 minutes
  2. Author
    Fanny Singer, see all
  3. Narrator
    Fanny Singer, see all
  4. Audible release date
    March 31, 2020
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Random House Audio
  7. ASIN
    B081PTK6RT
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Listening Length 8 hours and 41 minutes
Author Fanny Singer, Alice Waters
Narrator Fanny Singer, Alice Waters
Whispersync for Voice Ready
Audible.com Release Date March 31, 2020
Publisher Random House Audio
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B081PTK6RT
Best Sellers Rank #184,340 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#105 in Biographies of Culinary Professionals
#185 in Gastronomy (Audible Books & Originals)
#987 in Gastronomy Essays (Books)

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I finished Chef Alice Water's cooking series on Masterclass.com where her daughter assists in a few episodes. I saw this book unexpectedly and wanted to find out what and how to write a narrative of your life experiences like Fanny has done. I know I will enjoy looking at how they put their experiences into words. I adored watching the mother and daughter interaction on Masterclass.com and think everyone should have an opportunity to learn from both of them, plus join in on the "class community" option for the cooking class where you can learn from others. Happy to read about Fanny's experiences and to check out her other book. Thank you! I needed to have this in my kitchen. #Alice Waters Masterclass.com
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Linny
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Memories, Really Good Food
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2020
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Beautifully written in a style that's open, just seems to be natural to Fanny Singer to share memories in such a candid way. She's a very good story teller, you begin to feel you've met the characters she grew up with. For those of us who've been lucky enough to have dined many times at Chez Panisse and the Cafe, a whole life unknown to us within the restaurant Family begins to come alive. It's charming, funny, full of love and really good food. I just love this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect escapist read
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2020
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is beautifully written. Initially I purchased this book because I'm a fan of her mother, famed chef, restaurateur Alice Waters and the owner of the farm to table institution Chez Panisse. While I enjoyed reading about Waters’ interesting quirks and behind the scenes of Chez Panisse, I loved reading about Fanny’s upbringing and travels. South of France sounds like a dream. Fanny is fantastic at describing smells and scenery.
We are around the same age and I am from the San Francisco Bay Area, I grew up 27 miles away from Berkeley in the East Bay Area so it was exciting to read about familiar territory. I also took notes on places to visit in the North Bay like Bolinas and Inverness in Marin County. I am excited to try new recipes. This is the perfect escapist read during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pictures are beautiful too!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Fun read, and some recipes to try
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2020
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The book started out great, just seemed to falter a bit as pretty obviously the author was trying to fill pages. Still, I enjoyed it.
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DMcClureDVM
5.0 out of 5 stars My first COVID book club read
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2020
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Alice Waters joined her daughter Annie singer and a discussion of This book in the first virtual book club after the March 2020 lockdown for COVID. it was hosted by Vroman‘s bookstore in Pasadena California. This is part memoir and part cookbook. I have been cooking my way through it since March. I particularly enjoyed and perfected my roast chicken and my homemade chicken broth. I was inspired and delighted by the beautiful narrative and word choice by Fanny Singer throughout the book. The book captivated the relationship of food to life’s ambiance throughout the memoir. The story created an inspiration to improve my own cooking, It provided recognition that food and sharing for or stories about food are important means for human connection. This book initiated an important and meaningful course for my mental health during the isolation of the pandemic.
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Robert R.
3.0 out of 5 stars The reviews are right
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2024
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I bought this book and came across the same problem so many other people mention in their reviews. People don't speak like this in real life, and the occasional word here and there would be one thing, but this is written in a style where it seems as if it's trying to impress with word choice rather than convey a narrative you can empathize with and go along for the ride on. I'm sure this wasn't the author's intention, and perhaps it comes out of this being her first effort, but it's a bit off-putting and hard to take. Though the book was not inexpensive, I really couldn't stick with it as the tone created by this choice of words issue over and over got in the way of what the author was probably trying to convey. As a result, I didn't care and didn't finish.
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RipeReads
5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite Foodie Book of All - by Alice Waters' daughter
Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2022
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As her chef/food activist mother Alice Waters writes in the foreword, Always Home by Fanny Singer is "a story about the universal power of real food--how it knits us together, and how deeply our lives....can be enriched by the ways in which we nourish ourselves." Ever since my college years I have loved visiting Chez Panisse in Berkeley. Eating at Chez Panisse is a sensual experience not just a tasty meal, and Singer's story draws the reader into Waters’ visionary spirit. “The first guests arrive to the scent of woodsmoke and grilling bread...the handmade mozzarella still warm from the brine, the splash of green olive oil.... “ So much of what Singer relays about herself and Waters, resonates with my own values for fresh organic and sustainably raised food items, a European sensibility in food prep and decor, and an appreciation for aesthetic beauty, art, love and human connection. (I wanted to send her a list of songs and pieces to play while preparing and eating her food to complete the sensory engagement!) This book inspired me to take more time with my own food preparation. Some of the included recipes I skipped over (sadly I can’t eat sugar), but most were very enlightening. Singer gives the whys and hows of her recipes so that they make sense in a context. I can't wait to try roasting a chicken and making a lobster salad according to her instructions. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in how people connect through food.
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Catie Vodicka
5.0 out of 5 stars THIS IS A TRULY BEAUTIFUL READ...
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2020
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I loved absolutely everything about this book. If you are a fan of Alice Waters, then you are, automatically, a fan of her daughter, Fanny Singer. A lovely memoir about growing up in the glow of one of our most revered chefs and founder of Chez Panisse. Frequent visits to France add to the flavor of the author's offerings as she imparts the specifics of an unusual upbringing by a loving and creative "family" of biological relatives and close friends. As a bonus, recipes are included! I can attest to the divine success of roasting a chicken as per the instructions given on page 57. There are beautiful photographs, as well. This book will forever reside within my library of cookbooks.
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Janet
5.0 out of 5 stars good service
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 4, 2021
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1.0 out of 5 stars Poor layout
Reviewed in Canada on April 6, 2020
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Black and white, hard to distinguish recipes from all the chapters
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S C.
2.0 out of 5 stars a lovely book, but very disappointed with the black-and-white photos
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 16, 2020
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It's beautifully written and creates a lovely atmosphere. But this is undermined by the printing of the photographs - why are they not in colour? This gives a miserable austerity-feel to what is actually a life-affirming cookbook/memoir. The pictures give no incentive to make the recipes. Such a shame - this lovely book is really spoiled by this!
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