Jeremiah Tower (born 1942) is an American celebrity chef who, along with Wolfgang Puck and Alice Waters, is generally credited with developing the culinary style known as California cuisine.
Tower was born in Stamford, Connecticut, son of a managing director of an international film sound equipment company. A food lover, he had no formal culinary education before beginning his career as a chef. After earning a Masters Degree in Architecture from ...
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Jeremiah Tower (born 1942) is an American celebrity chef who, along with Wolfgang Puck and Alice Waters, is generally credited with developing the culinary style known as California cuisine.
Tower was born in Stamford, Connecticut, son of a managing director of an international film sound equipment company. A food lover, he had no formal culinary education before beginning his career as a chef. After earning a Masters Degree in Architecture from Harvard University, he had intended to pursue design of underwater structures in Hawaii, because of his obsession with finding the lost city of Atlantis. Out of money because his grandfather died and Towers was used to being taken care of and supported, and of all things, inspired by a berry tart he had eaten there, he applied for a job in 1972 at the then-unknown Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California. Alice Waters, the chef, hired him for his skills and his brazen confidence which bordered on egotism.
Tower left Chez Panisse in 1978, after...
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