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Judy Rodgers was born on October 28, 1956. As a 16-year-old exchange student in France, she stayed with the family of Jean Troisgros, who happened to run Les Frères Troisgros, a restaurant in Roanne. There she absorbed a culture in which ingredients, cooking and eating were venerated. She received a degree in art history from Stanford University in 1978. After graduating, she started cooking lunches at Chez Panisse in Berkeley with no formal training. Thus began her career as a chef. After working in restaurants in Italy, France, and New York, she ended up at Zuni Café in 1987. She wrote The Zuni Café Cookbook in 2002. She died of appendix cancer on December 2, 2013 at the age of 57. (Bowker Author Biography)
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