New York Times

The talented Ben Proudfoot created a beautiful short documentary about Sally for the New York Times. It’s a delight to hear Sally reflect on her life in her own words, sharing her story of family, her first Napa Valley restaurants, The French Laundry, and how she sought balance in all things.

Napa Valley Register

The late Sally Schmitt never attended a culinary arts school, but she collected a lifetime of cooking knowledge that she passed on in the voice of a skilled, patient educator in her new book "Six California Kitchens."

Food Gal

Before it was Thomas Keller’s Michelin three-starred French Laundry, the old stone building in Yountville was variously a bar, laundry, brothel, and rooming house, that languished in decrepit condition for years.

Wall Street Journal

When Sally Schmitt founded the French Laundry restaurant in Yountville, California, with her husband, Don, in 1978, the Napa Valley was not yet a destination for foodies. Celebrity chefs were a rarity, and female chefs even scarcer. Schmitt was a proponent of the farm-to-table movement and California cuisine long before either were called that.

Napa Valley Register

The town of Yountville today — the culinary and cultural heart of the Napa Valley, not to mention a powerful tourist magnet — is a village transformed from a one-time dodgy hamlet, overlooked and bypassed by Highway 29 heading upvalley.

New York Times

The upcoming cookbook and memoir by Ms. Schmitt, who died this month at 90, weaves recipes in with memories of a full life.

Barndiva

We talk about farm to table a lot these days without understanding the back breaking, thoroughly unglamorous hours of work it takes to accomplish anything close to that profound connection.

Anderson Valley Advertiser

Sally Schmitt, who with her husband, Don, opened the French Laundry, the now famous restaurant in the Napa Valley of California, in 1978, and in doing so helped solidify the valley as a food-and-wine destination and start a culinary movement built on seasonal local ingredients, died on Saturday at her home in Philo, Calif. She was 90.

Press Democrat

Sally Schmitt, a culinary visionary who founded The French Laundry restaurant in Yountville and helped launch the farm-to-table movement in Northern California, died on March 5 at her home in Philo after several years of declining health. She had just turned 90.

Restaurant Hospitality

Sally Schmitt, one of the pioneers of California cuisine and the first owner of famed restaurant The French Laundry, has died. She was 90.