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Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent
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Scrumptious food highlights this captivating, educational, 102-minute documentary that chronicles the extraordinary life and career of legendary, controversial, innovative, charismatic, influential culinary genius Jeremiah Tower, who started his career at Alice Waters' Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley in 1972 and went on to build his world-famous Stars Restaurant in San Francisco in 1985, through archival photographs and film clips and interview snippets with Roots of American Festival director Stephen Torres, TV personalities (such as Martha Stewart, Anthony Bourdain, and Ken Friedman), former Town and Country food and wine critic James Villas, chefs and restaurateurs (such as Mario Batali, Wolfgang Puck, Jonathan Waxman, and Steve Ellis), former Gourmet magazine editor-in-chief Ruth Reichl, former New York Times food writer Regina Schrambling, friend Gregg Lowery, niece Alexandra Tower Ewers, food writer and journalist Andrew Friedman, restaurant consultant Clark Wolf, former Stars general manager Tony Angotti, former Stars chefs Mark Franz and Jean-Pierre Moullé, former Stars jazz pianist Mike Greensill, former Stars patron Jerry Matters, Tavern on the Green owner Jim Caiola, former Stars bartender Seamus Coyle, reservations manager Samantha Talbott, nephew Peter Tower, and Harvard college friends John Sanger, Michael Palmer, and Cathy Simon.

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2017
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