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David Kinch opened Manresa in Los Gatos, California, in 2002. The name comes from the town of Manresa in Catalonia, a region he returned to throughout his professional life, and the food sat somewhere between French, Catalan and Japanese.
From 2007, the restaurant worked with Love Apple Farms in the Santa Cruz Mountains, run by Cynthia Sandberg, who had left the legal profession to become a farmer. The arrangement was unusual even by American standards. The farm grew hundreds of varieties exclusively for Manresa and sold nothing to anyone else. Most restaurants that call themselves farm to table buy from farms. Here, the farm grew for the kitchen and only for the kitchen.
This was clearest in the dish Into the Vegetable Garden, which was exactly that: a garden on a plate, assembled according to whatever happened to be ripe that day.
Manresa received its third Michelin star in 2016 and closed voluntarily at the end of 2022, after 20 years. The book documents the period in between and has a foreword by Eric Ripert.
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 336
Language: English
First published: 2013
