Sally Schmitt’s new cookbook and memoir, “Six California Kitchens,' is the story of a self-taught chef, wife, mother, entrepreneur and teacher. It gives her humble due as a pioneer of farm-to-table cuisine and one of the country’s trailblazing chefs.
Sally Schmitt at the French Laundry in the late 1970s, shortly after it opened. Unless you’ve been living or dining in Wine Country since the 1970s or ‘80s, you may not recognize the name Sally Schmitt, let alone know she was the original founder of the French Laundry back in 1978.
Schmitt was a California girl, born in 1932 and raised on a farm in Roseville. She was brought up learning how to grow her own food, as well as can vegetables and preserves and churn butter and ice cream. Seasonal flavors shaped her farm-to-table ethos and palate, and the era she grew up in gave her a practicality and grounded earthiness.
You’ll also find recipes from her time with Don and family at the Apple Farm in Philo, where they moved after selling the French Laundry to Thomas Keller in 1994, teaching numerous students and visitors for 15 years. The sixth and final kitchen is from her retirement years with Don in Elk, which began in 2008.
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