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...Chase??s reputation in food circles derives from her first cookbook, The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook, which she co-authored in 1984 and immediately hit The New York Times bestseller list. She has continued to write, penning an additional five cookbooks to date along with her first, which together have sold 1.5 million copies nationwide...
...Chase??s first brush with gourmet cooking came at age 13, when she served as cook at the Nantucket home of her aunt and uncle. For several months, she furnished the family with three meals a day. She also catered their weekly dinner parties using ingredients that had been grown locally...
Like in these early years, Nantucket has guided much of her culinary career. While Chase says she has never attended cooking school, she learned to cook by relying on local fruits, vegetables and meats that are staples on Nantucket. Chase??s Nantucket Open House Cookbook, published in 1987, introduces hundreds of recipes of her creation, including curried lentil soup with chutney butter, parmesan lasagna and braised lamb shanks with bourbon-barbeque sauce...
...Chase??s passion for cooking even overshadowed her senior thesis, “Chaos as a Form of Theory.” She remembers her formidable stack of thesis research “paled in comparison” to the even more impressive pile of Gourmet magazines lying nearby in her room...
...Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook. Within weeks Chase??s writing skills—honed at Harvard—brought her into the spotlight. Seeing that Chase was the best writer among the team of culinary experts, the project directors hired Chase to actually pen the cookbook. In a very short time, Chase went from small town business owner to minor celebrity...