View of the entrance of Chez Panisse in Berkely, Calif., photographed in 2019. (San Francisco Chronicle / Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images ) On Aug. 28, 1971, a 27-year-old former Montessori teacher ...

Meet Alice Waters, owner of legendary California eatery Chez Panisse, who started the culinary revolution known as "California Cuisine." Finally this evening, Alice Waters opened a Berkeley, ...

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On August 28, 1971, Chez Panisse opened its doors in Berkeley, Calif. The restaurant merged fine dining with high-quality, locally and seasonally sourced food. Over the past half-century, Chez Panisse ...

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 ...

Go back in time with us to 1971, the year that changed the way we eat forever. “The most important thing to me is that we were able to create something that was greater than the sum of its parts,” ...

Alice Waters, mother of the farm-to-table movement and founder of the now-50-year-old Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse, is quite fond of tomatoes. But if they’re not in season, she absolutely does not ...

Welcome to Housemade, a Chronicle column by culinary scientist Ali Bouzari. Here, we will take diners on a guided tour of the silent science, brilliant ideas and awesome techniques behind your ...

Alice Waters has an enviable kitchen. This is unsurprising given the iconic stature of the Chez Panisse chef, yet it’s still a sight for me to behold: beautiful bowls stacked in orderly precariousness ...