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As
the Hippy Gourmet, Bruce Brennan gets his share of predictable
questions
about Alice B. Toklas cookies and hash brownies. However, a closer look
reveals
a classically trained gourmet chef who has cooked for a long list of
movie and rock world
celebrities, in addition to Ronald Reagan and the Shah of Iran. Brennan
arrived in San Francisco as a teenager during the Summer of Love
(1967).
"All the flowers pointed to San Francisco," says Bruce, who had already
established his hippie credibility at the age of 13, when the New York
Post referred to him as a "longhaired truant" after they interviewed
the
youth at a New York peace demonstration. As the Hippy Gourmet, Brennan
celebrates family-style cooking in the San Francisco tradition.
Mister
SF and his own motley brood can attest that nothing says San
Francisco
like cooking a kitchenful of great food from fresh, natural ingredients
and dividing the lot of it by the number of friends who show up that
day.
With its laid back approach, Brennan's cable
cooking show is a hit. "If you can make a Bloody Mary, you can make
Gazpacho," he says. In San Francisco Brennan discovered that food
unites all people, all the time. And that's the simple truth about
love,
peace and eating - you can take it from the Hippy Gourmet. |