Chez Panisse

Robin Wilkey

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Robin Wilkey | Posted 04.22.2012

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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

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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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Pollan Bashes Country's Top Restaurant, Praises Chipotle

Posted 02.22.2012

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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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Why We Love The Mother Of The Organic Food Movement

Kitchen Daily | Joseph Erdos | Posted 02.07.2012

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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

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Regina Varolli

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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Robin Wilkey

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Robin Wilkey | Posted 03.27.2012

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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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SPAM Pie and Other Cooking Competition Winners

Anneli Rufus | Posted 12.04.2011

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Anneli Rufus

Cooking contests not only make great reality TV. They also inspire creativity, attract publicity, and potentially raise money for charities while celebrating local products, industries and cuisine.

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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
Vivian Norris

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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PHOTOS: California Celebrates 40 Years Of Chez Panisse

Robin Wilkey | Posted 11.05.2011

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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

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Robin Wilkey

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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Robin Wilkey

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Robin Wilkey | Posted 10.24.2011

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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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WATCH: Alice Waters Dishes With Hollywood Heartthrob On 'Today' Show

Robin Wilkey | Posted 10.24.2011

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On Tuesday morning, in celebration of Chez Panisse's 40th anniversary, the Today show's Jenna Bush Hager — yes, that Jenna Bush — paid a visi...

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

Ellen Kanner | Posted 10.22.2011

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Ellen Kanner

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

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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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Kia Makarechi

Bringing Real Food To The Next Generation

HuffingtonPost.com | Kia Makarechi | Posted 09.12.2011

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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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Elizabeth David: Great Recipes From the Writer Who Liberated Cooks

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jesse Kornbluth

Olive oil -- available in drug stores (because it was used only to treat ear infections). Garlic, Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese -- unknown and unavailable. That was England in the years after World War II.

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San Francisco's 2011 Michelin Stars: French Laundry Keeps Three, Chez Panisse Down To None

SF.Eater.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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After four years as the sole three star restaurant in the area, The French Laundry is joined by The Restaurant at Meadowood in its tier. Coi, Cyrus an...

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Foodies Turn To Foraging To Connect With Nature

AP | JULIANA BARBASSA | Posted 05.25.2011

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- When Chef Josh Skenes first sought the flavor of Northern California, he went to local growers. Then he went beyond farms, joini...

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Alice Waters' Culinary Tour

The Lonely Planet Blog | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Lonely Planet Blog

Alice Waters made U.S. food a pure pleasure. Here's her itinerary for savoring some of the best the Bay Area has to offer.

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Of Rice and Men

One For The Table | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Valentine's Day, Home Cooking, Making Risotto, Chez Panisse, Love, Healthy Living News
One For The Table

Rice and love are forever entwined in my mind. Panisse risotto, came to me when I was heart-broken, and led straight to a risotto-adoring Italian whom I fell in love with and married.

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It's A Book, It's A Restaurant Movement: "Slow: Life In A Tuscan Town" (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Lena Tabori | Posted 05.25.2011

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I was telling a producer at PBS the other day about "Slow: Life In a Tuscan Town" by Douglas Gayeton (which I am right smack in the middle of publishi...

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Anthony Bourdain, Alice Waters, Duff Goldman -- Clash of the Food Titans

Abe Silk | Posted 05.25.2011

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Abe Silk

The Connecticut Forum in Hartford was an informative, insightful and humorous panel discussion on food and food politics.

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A Locavore in Turnip Town: In Praise of Veggie Traders

Elissa Altman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Elissa Altman

if Freecycle works (and it does), and Craigslist has changed the way communities do business, why can't vegetable growers and food lovers take take advantage of this same business model?

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California Dreaming

Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011

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Liz Neumark

The warmth in the food markets out West and the bounty was enough to make us forget any economic worries or frigid temperatures back home.

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Uber-Chef Alice Waters Comes To Washington: Inauguration Week's Best Dinner

Huffington Post | Annie Groer | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON--Uber-chef Alice Waters says "I never voted again" after her great friend, journalist-activist Bob Scheer, lost his 1966 anti-Vietnam prima...

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