Personalities

Joanne Weir

Author, Kitchen Gypsy

Joanne Weir is a James Beard Award-winning cookbook author, cooking teacher, and host and executive producer for the award-winning PBS TV series Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence and her newest series Joanne Weir Gets Fresh. She is the chef and owner of Copita and launched Joanne Weir Wines, receiving numerous accolades. The author of 17 cookbooks, including Cooking Confidence, Joanne writes for many magazines and appears frequently on national television. A fourth-generation professional cook, Joanne spent five years cooking at Chez Panisse after receiving a Master Chef Diploma with Madeleine Kamman. When she's not teaching in her San Francisco studio kitchen, she's traveling and teaching throughout the world.

Weir has inspired legions of fans with her signature California-Mediterranean cuisine and relaxed, down-to-earth approach. In Kitchen Gypsy, the James Beard Award-winning cookbook author offers a taste of the people, places, and flavors that have inspired her throughout the years. More than a recipe collection, Kitchen Gypsy pairs 100 delicious dishes with Weir’s stories of her life in food, from childhood summers on her grandparents’ farm to her years cooking at Chez Panisse to her travels the world over. Filled with evocative writing and lush color photographs, this intimate cookbook offers a glimpse into the shaping of a celebrated chef. Featuring a foreword from Alice Waters.