SF Chron 8/14/11 article on Alice Waters
A Bay Area friend who keeps trying to tempt me back there (and knows I love CP, and have eaten there intermittently since 1974) sent me the article that appeared a week or so ago:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article...
It's a nice glimpse into the workings of the restaurant and Ms. Waters herself, who comes off as much less twee than she has seemed in some TV appearances.
Give me a brunch upstairs in 1976 or so, when Jeremiah Towers was cooking, please.
By buttertart
on Aug 23, 2011 06:23 AM
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Nice, thanks for bringing that to my attention. I heard her on Fresh Air last night. http://www.npr.org/2011/08/22/1397070...
~TDQ
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The article addresses the fact that the restaurant struggled financially in the beginning but I thought that CP hasn't been able to turn a profit for most of its lifetime. Somehow, time and time again, all these middle aged men would come in and pump all this money into CP to keep it afloat.
I read the biography of Alice Waters, and its something the book never really addresses why those men would do that when they never made any money in those ventures.
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I haven't heard anything about these middle-aged men. Was that in the article? Maybe the middle-aged men were earning interest and not profit? And the restaurant never made much of a profit after paying its expenses including interest and salaries? I'm sure Waters draws a salary... And her two chefs draw an annual salary even though they only work half a year each.
~TDQ
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