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Jeremiah Tower

Jeremiah Tower
Born 1942 (1942)
Stamford, CT
Education Riverview/St. Ignatius (Sydney, Australia); Parkside School, Surrey (England); Loomis School, Connecticut; Harvard College, BA; MA, architecture, Harvard School of Design.
Culinary career
Cooking style California Cuisine

Jeremiah Tower (born 1942) is an American celebrity chef who 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. He was educated at Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview (Sydney, Australia), Parkside School, Surrey (England), Loomis Chaffee, Connecticut, Harvard University, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. 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. After his grandfather died, Tower, who was used to being taken care of and supported, found himself out of money and in need of a job. Inspired by a berry tart he had eaten at the then-unknown Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California, he applied for a job there in 1972. Alice Waters and her partners hired him for his skills and his brazen confidence when it came to recreating great French traditional food. Within a year he became equal partners with Waters and the others and was in full charge of the kitchen, the writing of the menus, and the promotion of the restaurant.

Tower left Chez Panisse in 1978, after philiosophical and business disagreements with the majority of the Board and with Waters in particular (she and they rejecting his idea to open a Panisse Cafe), and worked at the Ventana Inn at Big Sur beginning 1978, taught briefly at the California Culinary Academy, revived the dying Balboa Cafe in San Francisco in 1981, then in 1982 became head chef and co-owner at Berkeley's Santa Fe Bar and Grill (a restaurant that was later a springboard for fellow Chez Panisse alum, Mark Miller, to open the Coyote Cafe in Santa Fe, New Mexico and a string of Southwestern-themed restaurants throughout the United States).


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