Fanny Singer Pays Homage to Mother Alice Waters With Memoir ‘Always Home’

Fanny Singer admits it: she’s terrible at following recipes. “I start improvising, for better or worse, immediately,” she says one winter morning in New York City. Based in San Francisco, Singer’s been in the city for a few weeks ahead of the publication of her book, “Always Home,” the tour for which will take her from the West Coast to the East Coast, down South and back home again. “I can’t even make myself read through a full recipe sometimes and totally absorb quantities. I immediately want to do some kind of embroidering.” It was with this spirit in mind — approaching food and cooking with an openness to intuition and exploration — that Singer, who is the daughter of chef and food activist Alice Waters, wrote and compiled her book. Singer, 36, uses recipes as an accessory for memoir in her book, which serves as a tribute to her childhood and mother, an early pioneer of the farm-to-table movement. “It assumes a certain amount of comfort in the kitchen — you have to know what a handful of parsley feels like — but at the same time, that’s really how my mom’s always cooked, too. And it’s true as to how I

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