The documentary film Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent is a complicated movie about a complicated man. The film, recently nominated for a James Beard award for Best Documentary, tells the story of ...

Get your popcorn ready: A documentary about legendary chef Jeremiah Tower is coming to theaters this year. CNN Films is co-producing the as-of-yet-unnamed film, which promises to be a biographical ...

Joshua David Stein is a New York-based journalist, author, food critic, and editor. Do you like food? Do you like movies? Do you like movies about food? If you answered yes to any of those questions, ...

That chef Jeremiah Tower — not Alice Waters — was the creator of California cuisine, then the architect of his own series of downfalls, left largely forgotten, sounds like the stuff of myth. But the ...

Jeremiah Tower is considered by some to be the godfather of modern American cooking. But many don’t even know his name. A new documentary, executive produced by chef, author and TV personality Anthony ...

The man Anthony Bourdain refers to as the “father of American cuisine” is none other than Jeremiah Tower. The chef is the subject of the Bourdain-produced documentary, Jeremiah Tower: The Last ...

“Most people would not know who Jeremiah Tower is,” Martha Stewart says in the opening minutes of the recently released documentary Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent. She delivers this burn ...

There are two conflicting origin stories about the birth of California cuisine, both set at Berkeley’s famous Chez Panisse. In one version, it’s Alice Waters who brainstorms the idea of using fresh, ...

It was supposed to be his culinary comeback. After a near 20-year hiatus from the kitchen, California chef Jeremiah Tower set out to redeem his career — and legacy — at Tavern on the Green. He was ...