Alice Waters’s Book Picks

  1. 1

    The French menu cookbook

    Richard Olney · 1970

  2. 2

    A book of Mediterranean food

    Elizabeth David · 1950

  3. 3

    Sacred Food

    Elisabeth Luard · 2001

  4. 4

    A pattern language

    Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Shlomo Angel, Nax Jacobsohn · 1977

  5. 5

    Fast Food Nation

    Eric Schlosser, Eric Schlosser · 2001

  6. 6

    The man who planted trees

    Jean Giono · 1985

  7. 7

    And the pursuit of happiness

    Maira Kalman · 2010

  8. 8

    Savage inequalities

    Jonathan Kozol · 1991

  9. 9

    What are people for?

    Wendell Berry · 1990