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Farm to Table 2.0: Chefs Cutting Carbon

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4.7583 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Can a menu at a fancy restaurant be a map for solving the climate challenge? A handful of high-end chefs are using their restaurants to show how innovative grazing and growing practices can cut carbon pollution. Anthony Myint, asks “What would it look like if you had ... environmentalism right up there with deliciousness, as your top priorities?” Dominique Crenn, a two Michelin star chef, pushes to move beyond the restaurateurs who she says only pay lip service to responsibly sourcing their food. Theirs is an uncompromising approach to cutting carbon while maintaining the best of the best. Gwyneth Borden Executive Director, Golden Gate Restaurant Association Dominique Crenn Chef and Owner, Atelier Crenn Anthony Myint Chef and Co-owner, The Perennial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Could a menu at a fancy restaurant be a map for solving the climate challenge?

0:42.5

Welcome to Climate One, changing the conversation about energy, economy, and the environment.

0:47.5

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0:52.5

are recorded before a live audience and hosted by Greg Dalton.

0:57.0

I'm Devon Strollovich. A handful of prominent chefs are using their high-end restaurants

1:02.0

to show how innovative grazing and growing practices can cut carbon pollution and create unique dining experiences.

1:08.0

I have three restaurants. I'm not trying to make something that look like a steak fruit and it's not a steak

1:14.3

fruit.

1:15.3

It's just like, have something else to offer you.

1:17.5

Dominique Cren is chef and owner of Atelier Cren in San Francisco, which received two coveted

1:22.2

Michelin stars.

1:23.6

She's won numerous other awards and was featured on the Chef's Table documentary series on Netflix.

1:28.3

Kren was on the ground floor of the Farm to Table movement, which emphasized food that's local, seasonal, fresh and nutritious.

1:35.3

Farm to Table 2.0 should incorporate all the best things of that, but I think it really needs to be focused on healthy soil as the world's most practical climate solution. Anthony Mint is executive chef

1:45.8

and co-owner of the perennial. He's also a partner in Mission Chinese Food and Commonwealth,

1:50.6

a Michelin-starred restaurant. In working toward restaurant sustainability, Mint made

1:55.2

environmentalism and deliciousness his top priorities. Everyone is trying to move in a direction

2:00.4

where their food is better for us, right?

2:03.6

And in the process of doing that, they will make the environment better as well.

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