Sylvan Brackett

Sylvan Mishima Brackett was born in Kyoto, Japan, and grew up in the woods of the Sierra Nevada foothills. After starting a lunch stand at his high school, he cooked professionally in Portland, Oregon, San Franciso, and Grasse, France. Sylvan received his BA from Reed College where he wrote his senior thesis on the development of the idea of "good taste" in pre-revolutionary France. He is now Alice Waters's assistant at Chez Panisse and lives in Oakland with his wife.