Acknowledgments

Thanks to the wonderful folks at Artisan, especially Peter Workman, Ann Bramson, Trent Duffy, Amy Corley, Judith Sutton, Barbara Peragine, Jan Derevjanik, Nancy Murray, and Erin Sainz.

Thanks to all the extraordinary people at Canal House: Christopher Hirsheimer and Melissa Hamilton, Jim Hirsheimer, Jim Hamilton, Michael Hagerty, Julie Sprosser, Rachel Weinreb, and Elizabeth May. Thanks to John Carloftis.

Merci mille fois to Dorothy Kalins and Dorothy Kalins Ink. Thanks to Roger Sherman, Lincoln Sherman, Sandrine Lago, and Gigi.

Thanks to Katherine Cowles, angel and agent.

Thanks to Barbara Tanis Design.

Thanks to everyone at Chez Panisse, especially Alice. Also to Jean-Pierre Moullé, Jérôme Waag, Beth Wells, Cal Peternell, Nathan Alderson, Amy Dencler, Ryan Childs, Aaron Rocchino, Nico Monday, and Gordon Heyder.

Thanks to Barbara Tanis, Stuart Busch, Fabrizia Lanza, Ignacio Mattos and Gaby Plater, Richard Gilbert and Gilbert Pilgram, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg, and Maggie Trakas for friendship and feasting.

Thanks to Bob Cannard, salt of the earth.

Thanks to the Chino family for farming the land.

Thanks to Eleanor and Ray Must, for teaching me about figs and quinces, early on.

Thanks to Steven Barclay and Garth Bixler, Joan Simon and Alan Kennedy, Seen Lippert and Fred Landman, Kevin West, Angelo Garro, Kenny Parker, Michael and Sylvie Sullivan, Richard and Deidre Gordon, Camille Labro, David Lebovitz and Romain Pellas, Michael and Jill Wild, David Lindsey, Claire Ptak, Susie and David Ritch, Tony Oltranti and Bob Carrau, generous spirits and table mates.

Thanks to Peggy Knickerbocker, Niloufer Ichaporia King, Caroline Gordon, Sue Murphy, Kate Coleman, Carol Lewitt, Davia Nelson, Sharon Jones, Alta Tingle, Clare Bell, and Margo Channing. Vive les femmes!

And finally, but far from least, abiding thanks to Randal Breski.