In March 1977, Margaret Fox acquired the Cafe Beaujolais restaurant and property in Mendocino, California, and began serving breakfast and lunch, turning Cafe Beaujolais into the culinary destination that it remains today. In June of 2000 the restaurant was sold, and then sold again in 2006. This book is about the restaurant and its food while Margaret Fox owned it. From the cover flap. "This is a book about a restaurant and the food for which it is justly famous; about the woman who started it, runs it, and cooks there; it is about cooking and about small towns, and finally it is about the people who have come to the restaurant to eat, to work, to enjoy. There are a 125 recipes. There is [also] a lot said here about the joys and the pitfalls of operating a small restaurant--information that is not a part of the typical "cookbook."