Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook

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By Alice Waters h’09

Published Oct. 16, 2017

Coming to My Senses (Clarkson Potter) is the memoir of Alice Waters h’09, and it chronicles how her “little French restaurant” in Berkeley, Calif., came to be, how she went on to redefine American cuisine for generations of chefs, and how she became a respected activist for political change.

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