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Chefs Love Democrats: The Top 15 Chef Political Donations

The Braiser | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Roy Yamaguchi, Daniel Boulud, Bobby Flay, Alice Waters, Rocco DiSpirito, Ina Garten, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Rachael Ray, Elizabeth Falkner, Mario Batali, Sandra Lee, Tim Love, Marcus Samuelsson, Thomas Keller, Mark Peel, Fundraisers, Slidepollajax, Food News

How do celebrity chefs support political candidates? With fancy dinners? With non-connected joint expenditure committees? With hundred dollar bills baked into pies?

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Cafe Fanny Controversy: Did Alice Waters Lie To Employees About Severance?

HuffingtonPost.com | Robin Wilkey | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Alice Waters Employees, Alice Waters Severance Pay, Video, Chez Panisse Cafe Fanny, Chez Panisse, Cafe Fanny, Cafe Fanny Employees, Alice Waters, Alice Waters Cafe Fanny, Cafe Fanny Severance Package, Cafe Fanny Severance Pay, Alice Waters Chez Panisse, San Francisco News

On March 9, Cafe Fanny, the extremely popular Berkeley bistro run by celebrity restaurateur Alice Waters, unexpectedly closed its doors. As with m...

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WATCH: Member Of The Chez Panisse Empire Closes After 28 Years

Robin Wilkey | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Video, Alice Waters Restaurant, San Francisco Around Town, Alice Waters, Cafe Fanny Closed, Alice Waters Berkeley, Alice Waters Chez Panisse, Cafe Fanny Closes, Cafe Fanny Alice Waters, Chez Panisse, Cafe Fanny, Cafe Fanny Closing, Alice Waters Cafe, San Francisco News

Friday was a sad day in Berkeley when, after 28 years, Alice Waters' Cafe Fanny permanently closed its doors. According Inside Scoop, the restaurant w...

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PHOTOS: Signature Dishes From America's Greatest Chefs

Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Video, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Mario Batali, Best of the Best Cookbook, Cookbooks, Celebrity Chefs, Alice Waters, James Beard Awards, Thomas Keller, Tom Colicchio, Slidepollajax, James Beard Foundation, Best of the Best James Beard Foundation, James Beard Foundation Cookbooks, Food News

Every year since 1991, the James Beard Foundation picks one chef, out of all the hundreds of thousands in America, to be its Outstanding Chef of the Y...

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Pollan Bashes Country's Top Restaurant, Praises Chipotle

Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Michael Pollan French Laundry, French Laundry, Michael Pollan Favorite Restaurants, Sustainable Food, Restaurants, Michael Pollan Chipotle, Chez Panisse, Chipotle, Michael Pollan Chez Panisse, Alice Waters, Video, Food News

For the most part, sustainable food guru Michael Pollan, author of Omnivore's Dilemma etc., makes pronouncements on the broadest contours of the food ...

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A Valentine's Tribute To The Chefs We Love

Kitchen Daily | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Chefs We Love, Video, David Lebovitz, Michelle Bernstein, Dorie Greenspan, Graham Kerr, Julia Child, Johnny Iuzzini, Alice Waters, Yotam Ottolenghi, Christina Tosi, KitchenDaily News

Chefs We Love is a Valentine's Day tribute to those who have done great work in the culinary world -- to those who inspire us to not only eat well, bu...

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Why We Love The Mother Of The Organic Food Movement

Kitchen Daily | Joseph Erdos | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Chefs We Love, Video, Organic Food, Sustainable Food, Slow Food Movement, Berkeley, Locavorism, Chez Panisse, Alice Waters, California Cuisine, KitchenDaily News

Chefs We Love is a Valentine's Day tribute to those who have done great work in the culinary world -- to those who inspire us to not only eat well, bu...

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Allegra McEvedy's Bought, Borrowed & Stolen

Regina Varolli | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Chefs Knives, Chef Allegra McEvedy, Borrowed & Stolen: Recipes & Knives From a Travelling Chef, Recipes, Cookbooks, Fairtrade Foundation, Celebrity Chefs, Travel, Chez Panisse, Rubicon, Alice Waters, Jardinière, Traci Des Jardins, Food News

Chef Allegra McEvedy loves her knives, all 100 of them, each with a story to tell. Though it's hard to say what she likes more: her vast collection of knives or her world travels on which she collects these specimens of international chefdom.

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And The Winners Are...

Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Artisan Food, Good Food Awards, Alice Waters, Gilt Taste, Ruth Reichl, Food News

On Friday night, the winners of the second annual Good Food Awards were announced. The awards highlight artisan producers from across the country. The...

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The Tables Have Turned: Inside San Francisco's New Food Movement

HuffingtonPost.com | Robin Wilkey | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Sf Food Movement, Sf Dining, San Francisco Food, Sf Michelin Stars, Benu, Atelier Crenn Sf, San Francisco Restaurants, Alice Waters, San Francisco Around Town, SF Food, Good News, David Chang San Francisco, Saison, David Chang, San Francisco Dining, Saison San Francisco, Atelier Crenn, Chez Panisse, Atelier Crenn San Francisco, Benu San Francisco, Saison Sf, San Francisco Michelin Stars, San Francisco Food Movement, Benu Sf, San Francisco News

SAN FRANCISCO -- In 2005, a frustrated chef, Oakland's Daniel Patterson, wrote an article for The New York Times. The piece was a risky, exasperated c...

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Tackling Hunger: Here's Hoping This Nonprofit Goes Out of Business

Robert Egger | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Hunger, DC Central Kitchen, Dc Impact, Nonprofits, Food Insecurity, Campus Kitchens Project, Alice Waters, Gary Oppenheimer, Jose Andres, DC News

Campus Kitchens is based on a very simple idea: that you can take existing resources (food, people, facilities) and re-organize them to feed more people for less money... while also training men and women for culinary jobs.

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Meatless Monday: Food Day October 24 -- Countdown To Eating Real

Ellen Kanner | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Center for Science in the Public Interest, Arlo Guthrie, Michael Pollan, Morgan Spurlock, Pasta, Ellie Krieger, Alice Waters, Slow Food USA, Earth Day, Alice's Restaurant, Lentils, Food Day, Kale, Green News

You can help meet every one of Food Day's goals with one single choice -- eat less meat. Jobs, health, education, the environment and ethics all converge at the end of our forks.

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WATCH: 'Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe'

Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Uc Theater, Werner Herzog, Director, German Cinema, Even Dwarfs Started Small, Alice Waters, Film, Cinema, Video, Gates of Heaven, Roger Ebert, Berkeley, Cooking, Footwear, Les Blank, Errol Morris, Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, Arts News

Back in 1978, Herzog challenged a then-unknown Errol Morris to make his feature documentary, "Gates of Heaven," promising Morris that he would eat his...

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Changing the World -- One Foodie at a Time

Vivian Norris | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Sustaiable, Biodynamic, Taste, Occupywallstreet, Champagne, Velibs, Alice Waters, tastings.fr, Pollution, Organic, Paris, Geoffroy Finch, Health, Amap, Picnics, Wine, Gardening, Chez Panisse, Food News

The world may be going through a rough financial time, but if we all pull together, we can still find ways to cooperate and enjoy the most basic of human joys, the joy of taste!

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Sustainable Food Comes of Age

Tensie Whelan | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Environment, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainability, Alice Waters, Sustainable Food, Video, Green News

It's hard to pinpoint an exact definition or an exact beginning of the sustainable food movement. No doubt human beings everywhere have always sought...

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Why LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy Wakes Up At 2:45AM

HuffingtonPost.com | Sasha Bronner | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Year Round Calendar, Jamie Oliver, Lausd, Teacher Evaluation System, Dr. John Deasy, Alice Waters, Lausd Superintendent, John Deasy, Los Angeles News

LAUSD superintendent Dr. John Deasy does not believe in wasting time. He talks fast, sleeps little–-four hours a night-–and is in the news often f...

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PHOTOS: California Celebrates 40 Years Of Chez Panisse

Robin Wilkey | Posted 11.05.2011

Read More: Chez Panisse 40th Anniversary, Chez Panisse Alice Waters, Alice Waters, Chez Panisse, Chez Panisse Anniversary, Edible Schoolyard Project, Alice Waters Edible Schoolyard Project, San Francisco News

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Chez Panisse restaurant, founder Alice Waters and her Chez Panisse Foundation (soon to be called the Edible Schoo...

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Why Alice Matters: The Book Of Chez Panisse

Robin Wilkey | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Chez-Panisse-Anniversary, Chez-Panisse-40th-Anniversary, Alice Waters Interview, Alice Waters, Slidefreestyle, Chez Panisse, Alice-Waters-Chez-Panisse, Alice Chez Panisse, San Francisco News

Waters's influence on how America approaches food, farming and cooking is indisputable. Cynicism is easy and creates nothing new. But an entire industry has changed thanks to Chez Panisse.

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Alice Waters On Her Next Project, Favorite Foods And 40 Years Of Chez Panisse

HuffingtonPost.com | Robin Wilkey | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Chez-Panisse-40th-Anniversary, Alice Waters Interview, Edible Schoolyard, Chez Panisse, Chez Panisse Foundation, San Francisco Around Town, Alice Waters, Alice-Waters-Chez-Panisse, Edible Schoolyard Project, Alice Waters Chez Panisse, San Francisco News

Who: The great Alice Waters: the chef, author, mother, farmer, food justice ambassador and founder of Berkeley restaurant, Chez Panisse, who has chang...

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Meatless Monday: Forty Years Of Hope, Great Eats And Chez Panisse

Ellen Kanner | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: Edible Schoolyard, Anthony Bourdain, 40 Years of Chez Panisse, Alice Waters, Obamas, Chez Panisse, Michael Schwartz, Michael's Genuine Food and Drink, Food, Green News

You don't need to have eaten at Chez Panisse to be shaped by the restaurant which celebrates its 40th anniversary this week. You don't even have to l...

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$5 Lunch With Alice Waters? Here's What's On The Menu

Robin Wilkey | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Chez Panisse 40th Anniversary, Chez Panisse 40th, Chez Panisse, Edible Schoolyard, Chez Panisse Lunch Union Square, Alice Waters, San Francisco Around Town, School Lunch, Chez Panisse Anniversary, Chez Panisse School Lunch, San Francisco News

Rumors of the events surrounding next week's 40th anniversary of legendary restaurant Chez Panisse have been spreading faster than rumors of a new pop...

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Bringing Real Food To The Next Generation

HuffingtonPost.com | Kia Makarechi | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Ferran Adria, Karen Rogers, El Bulli, Organic Food, Huffpost Greatest Person of the Day, Berkeley, Chez Panisse, Oakland, Nonprofits, Greatest Person of the Day, Alice Waters, Good News, Organic, Sprouts Cooking Club, Food Security, Video, Impact News

It turns out star chefs like Alice Waters (Chez Panisse, Berkeley) and Ferran Adria (El Bulli, Costa Brava) have more in common than dining rooms peop...

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The Truth Behind The Organic Garden Greeting Michelle Obama In Berkeley

Anneli Rufus | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Josh Thomsen, Michelle Obama, Breakfast, Resort, Claremont, Restaurants, Alice Waters, Meritage, Fundraiser, Barack Obama, Food News

I knew that those vegetable gardens were a project -- a year in the making -- of Josh Thomsen, executive chef of the Claremont's Meritage restaurant. Thomsen first told me about his plans last year.

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Jonathan Waxman on His New Cookbook, Italian, My Way

Louise McCready | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Italian My Way, Barbuto, New York Chefs, Cookbooks, Jonathan Waxman, Home Cooking, Italian Cookbook, A Great American Cook, Alice Waters, Italian Cooking, Italian Recipes, Food News

Making pizza is the best thing in the world, and it's so much more satisfying to make your own stuff. Even if it doesn't taste better, you think it does -- and that's all that counts!

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Reinvention, Self Invention and Social Media

Courtney Reum | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Culinary, Anthony Bourdain, Social Media, Ruth Reichl, Green, Trends, Food, Tim Ferriss, Alice Waters, Social Media Marketing, Green News

Whether it was an April Fool's prank or a genuine confession-as-publicity-stunt, organic food's godmother Alice Waters (of Chez Panisse fame) last Fri...

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