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As Chez Panisse Turns 50, What’s Cooking (Next)?

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4.2727 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Berkeley’s influential Chez Panisse restaurant has turned 50. The restaurant transformed food culture in the Bay Area and put California, and farm to table cuisine, on the global culinary map. We talk with founder Alice Waters, and chefs and food producers who got their start at the restaurant, about the history and legacy of Chez Panisse and the future of the ecosystem of farms, food and restaurants it inspired. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Alexis Madrigal.

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Berkeley's influential Chez Panisse restaurant has turned 50.

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Few restaurants anywhere have had its level of influence,

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as the restaurant came to stand in not only for a culinary style,

0:49.5

but an entire approach to food,

0:51.4

including the agriculture that produced it,

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the culture that rendered

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it interesting, and the design of the network of businesses ecologically connected through

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the restaurant.

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Alice Waters created this institution and extended its reach through programs like edible

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