Plant-forward, local food is now synonymous with good eating — but these values weren’t always so clear cut. Without Alice Waters, American cuisine might be in a very different place. The pioneering ...

In the early 1980s, when radicchio was just appearing in restaurants like Chez Panisse and Fourth Street Grill in Berkeley, I had a vegetable seed company. Le Marche Seeds International sold European ...

Allow him to explain: Huey grew up gardening and cooking with his grandmother in San Leandro. He went to college at UC San Diego, where he spent undergrad studying zoology and grad school researching ...

Using the treasures from the Earth, "Chez Panisse Vegetables" offers endless possibilities for any occasion. -- GateHouse News Service Ask a cook: Take a leaf from the celery stalk for flavor Q: I got ...

Alice Waters, Author, with Alan Tangren and Fritz Streiff. HarperCollins $34.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-019957-9 The eighth Chez Panisse cookbook, which features sweet and savory dishes that use fruit, ...

How Chez Panisse redesigned fine dining—and changed how America eats Thank Alice Waters and her Berkeley, California, restaurant Chez Panisse—celebrating its 50th anniversary this year—for the farm-to ...