(#134) CHEZ PANISSE SEVENTEENTH BIRTHDAY:

Edition of 839 of which 300 copies are signed and numbered 1-300; 26 are signed A-Z as artist's proofs, one copy is signed as a dedication copy and three sets are signed as progressives.

August 27, 1988 Fourteen colors 17 - 1/8" x 24"

Model: Alice Louise Waters (at 18 months)

Model: Alice Louise Waters (at 18 months)adapted from a photograph by her mother, Margaret Waters Client: Chez Panisse Café & Restaurant, 1517 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley CA 94709. Telephone (510) 548-5525 Dedication copy: Alice Louise Waters

(How, Jan/Feb. 1989, feature article)

When Alice Waters was a little girl, her mother dressed her up as a salad for a school play. This episode affected her more deeply than anyone might have imagined. Alice, so early exposed to the intimate notion of actually being a vegetable, came to feel for them more tenderly than almost anyone else in the world. Perfect, tasty, fresh, there's nothing quite like a vegetable served at the peak of the season. As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.