Alex defines Old School as “anything or things that refer to a previous generation of a subject/idea/object/etc. typically, they are highly regarded and sometimes the very things that started it all.”[1] What makes this book old school is that it tells the story of how things got started within her and continue to exist in her cooking to this day. It is the common thread, which runs across her life and her cooking, which tells the story of how she came to where she is in her culinary journey.