Chef Cal Peternell Visits on 18 December 2014 at 7 PM


Cal Peternell
Who: Chez Panisse chef and cookbook author, Cal Peternell.
 
What: Discussing his marvelous (and essential!) new cookbook, Twelve Recipes.
 
When: Thursday, 18 December 2014 at 7 PM.
 
Where: Rakestraw Books.
 
How much: This is a free event. Make your reservations by calling us at (925) 837-7337.
 
Why you should care: In this charmingly written, beautifully photographed and illustrated cookbook, the chef of Alice Waters's Chez Panisse offers basic techniques and essential recipes that will transform anyone into a confident home cook

When Cal Peternell, the chef at Berkeley's legendary Chez Panisse, was helping his oldest son pack his things for college and beyond, he naturally set him up with the gear for a new kitchen: a nice skillet, a decent knife, a cutting board, and a colander. He also started writing. Just twelve recipes at first -- reminders of foods they'd cooked together and enough to put together some good meals -- but what started as a cookbooklet from a father for his sons has become, luckily for the rest of us, Twelve Recipes, a baker's dozen chapters on how to cook and eat well.

Standards -- toast, eggs, beans -- are renewed with simple elegance and wit. More advanced and adventurous dishes are made accessible. Variations are allowed for and encouraged, rules are well explained and unenforced. Twelve Recipes is a cookbook that will get you into the kitchen and get your friends around the table; an essential and versatile book of recipes, and a book to read with pleasure in and out of the kitchen. 
 
Special note: We are delighted to welcome the good people of The Terraces Winery in St. Helena to this evening's event. They will be pouring samples of some of their new wines. What a treat! 
 
Please join us in welcoming Cal Peternell to Rakestraw Books.
 
If you cannot
 
Event date: 
Thursday, December 18, 2014 - 7:00pm
Event address: 
550 Hartz Ave
94526 Danville
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