he showed it to me and said, "go do it." well, if i hadn't been so broke, i would never have paid any attention. so when i landed in the entrance to the kitchen door, applied for a job at chez panisse in berkeley, it was alice waters' little dream restaurant. >> alice: it has to be a lot of fun, and that's why we always have had music and dancing and people eating with their hands and very -- a lot of informality. >> ken: a bunch of these berkeley students, kinda hippies, you know, it was a place for like, poetry readings. it was a coffee house, you know? there were no chefs involved early on. alice was -- her boyfriend was a film guy. and, you know, she'd been to france a couple of times. >> ruth: she had had this epiphany. she had been to france. she had eaten in all these little bistros. she had fallen in love with the food. basically, it was just, "i want to make this little restaurant for my friends." >> john: she was not a scholar of cooking in the way jeremiah