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U.S. to receive three Michelin
stars, for her San Francisco res-
taurant Atelier Crenn. Her memoir
tracks the years leading up to that
milestone, from her childhood in
Versailles, where her parents
nurtured her curiosity and love of
food; to the late 1980s, when she
left the male-dominated culinary
world of Paris for better opportu-
nities in San Francisco; to her
professional successes—the
restaurant, her appearances on
Iron Chef and Chef’s Table—and her
search for identity and belonging
as an adoptee and an expat.
Unvarnished
Eric Alperin and Deborah Stoll.
Harper Wave, June
Alperin, who among other projects
cofounded influential L.A. bar the
Varnish, and Stoll, a journalist and
veteran bartender, slake readers’
thirsts for a water-spots-and-all look
at cocktail culture, with lessons
learned from the late Sasha
Petraske, a pioneering bartender
and Alperin’s mentor; musings on
craft and what it means to be
somebody’s local; and cautionary
advice against dating a bartender.
Bolstering the narrative: 100
cocktail recipes that all Varnish
bartenders know before they
serve their first drink. —L.S.