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Posts tagged “Chez Panisse”

In the News: Alice Waters on 60 Minutes

Did you catch Alice Waters on 60 Minutes last week? If not, it's definitely worth taking a 10-minute coffee break (ok, 12-minute, but we won't tell) to watch this interview! We loved the peak into th...

Edible Schoolyard by Alice Waters
Book Review 2009

The Edible Schoolyard program has become very well known in the last ten years or so, principally because of its original founder: Alice Waters of Chez Panisse. She was struck by what she saw as waste...

Gift Recipe: Chez Panisse Herbed Almonds

My husband and I had the pleasure of visiting Chez Panisse this week -- a first for both of us. I had eaten upstairs in the café, but never downstairs in the evening dining room. It was a lovel...

Book Review: A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes

When first encountering David Tanis's new cookbook, A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes, skeptics might roll their eyes: why do I need a full-color, hard-cover book from a chef who splits his life bet...

Weekend Meditation: My First Dinner at Chez Panisse

(My goal is to write this with out using the words perfect, delicate, seasonal or visionary because you already know that by now.) For quite sometime I've been saying "I can't believe I'm living in S...