中文简介：

海登·埃雷拉（Hayden Herrera）的父母各结过五次婚；对他们来说，满足自己的愿望比照顾孩子更为重要。在埃雷拉只有三岁时，她的父母便已分居，她和姐姐从科德角搬到纽约市，与母亲和酗酒的继父生活在一起。她们也只有在开普敦的夏天才能见到父亲，那时他们和邻居的孩子们都被忙于绘画、写作或作曲的父母抛在一边。这些成年人居住在一个被埃雷拉的母亲称为“上波西米亚” 的世界里，这是一个出生在特权阶层的人选择专注于心灵生活的环境。她父母的朋友包括艺术家马克斯·恩斯特（Max Ernst,）、作家埃德蒙·威尔逊（Edmund Wilson）和玛丽·麦卡锡（Mary McCarthy）、建筑师马塞尔·布鲁尔（Marcel Breuer）和收藏家佩吉·古根海姆（Peggy Guggenheim）等文学界和艺术界的大腕。从表面上看，主人公的童年是梦幻超现实田园诗般的生活。但在她内心深处，又充斥着亲情缺失的遗憾与痛苦。一方面，她画家父母对于艺术的追寻，使她受到良好的熏陶与感染。而另一方面，不断更变的住处，父母的鲜少陪伴，以及家庭人员的不断变化都使作为孩子的她敏感失落。

英文简介：

Six California Kitchens is the quintessential California cookbook, with farm-to-table recipes and stories from Sally Schmitt, the pioneering female chef and original founder of the French Laundry.Sally Schmitt opened The French Laundry in Yountville in 1978 and designed her menus around local, seasonal ingredients—a novel concept at the time.In this soon-to-be-classic cookbook, Sally Schmitt takes us through the six kitchens where she learned to cook, honed her skills, and spent her working life. Six California Kitchens weaves her remarkable story with 115 recipes that distill the ethos of Northern California cooking into simple, delicious dishes, plus evocative imagery, historic ephemera, and cooking wisdom.With gorgeous food and sense-of-place photography, this is a masterful, story-rich cookbook for home and aspiring chefs who cook locally and seasonally, food historians, fans of wine country, and anyone who wants to bring the spirit of Northern California home with them.