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Greens Restaurant
Greens Restaurant is a landmark vegetarian restaurant in the Fort Mason Center in the Marina District, San Francisco, California, overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. History Founded by the San Francisco Zen Center in 1979, Greens has been credited in ''The New York Times'' as "the restaurant that brought vegetarian food out from sprout-infested health food stores and established it as a cuisine in America." Greens has a legacy of female lead chefs, beginning with founding chef Deborah Madison, and followed by Annie Somerville, Denise St. Onge, and currently Katie Reicher. The restaurant utilizes fresh produce from the organic Green Gulch Farm Zen Center. Books * ''The Greens Cookbook.'' Deborah Madison with Edward Espe Brown. Random House Broadway imprint. . * ''Fields of Greens: New Vegetarian Recipes From The Celebrated Greens Restaurant: A Cookbook.'' Annie Somerville. Bantam Books. . See also * California Cuisine California cuisine is a food movement that ...
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Vegetarian Cuisine
Vegetarian cuisine is based on food that meets vegetarian standards by not including meat and animal tissue products (such as gelatin or animal-derived rennet). Common vegetarian foods Vegetarian cuisine includes consumption of foods containing vegetable protein, vitamin B12, and other nutrients. Food regarded as suitable for all vegetarians (including vegans) typically includes: * Cereals/grains: barley, buckwheat, corn, fonio, hempseed, maize, millet, oats, quinoa, rice, rye, sorghum, triticale, wheat; derived products such as flour (dough, bread, baked goods, cornflakes, dumplings, granola, Muesli, pasta etc.). * Vegetables (fresh, canned, frozen, pureed, dried or pickled); derived products such as vegetable sauces like chili sauce and vegetable oils. * Edible fungi (fresh, canned, dried or pickled). Edible fungi include some mushrooms and cultured microfungi which can be involved in fermentation of food (yeasts and moulds) such as ''Aspergillus oryzae'' and ''Fusarium ...
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Deborah Madison
Deborah Madison is an American chef, food writer and cooking teacher. She has been called an expert on vegetarian cooking and her gourmet repertoire showcases fresh garden produce. Her work also highlights Slow Food, local foods and farmers' markets. Early years Madison grew up in Davis, California, and earned a bachelor's degree with high honors in sociology/city planning in 1968 from Cowell College at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She then cooked at Chez Panisse and was a student for eighteen years at the San Francisco Zen Center. She was the founding chef at Greens Restaurant in San Francisco which opened in 1979. She then cooked for a year at the American Academy in Rome, Italy. Cookbooks Madison, whose work concentrates on local foods and farmers' markets, returned to the Bay Area to write ''The Greens Cookbook'' with co-author :Edward Espe Brown, and then wrote another 10 books on food and cooking, including '' Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone'', ''This Can't ...
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Black Walnut
''Juglans nigra'', the eastern American black walnut, is a species of deciduous tree in the walnut family, Juglandaceae, native to central and eastern North America, growing mostly in riparian zones. Black walnut is susceptible to thousand cankers disease, which provoked a decline of walnut trees in some regions. Black walnut is allelopathic, releasing chemicals from its roots and other tissues that may harm other organisms and give the tree a competitive advantage, but there is no scientific consensus that this is a primary competitive factor. Black walnut is an important tree commercially, as the wood is a deep brown color and easily worked. Walnut seeds (nut (fruit), nuts) are cultivated for their distinctive and desirable taste. Walnut trees are grown for lumber and food, and processors have found additional markets for even the tough outer hulls by finely grinding them for use in products such as abrasive cleansers. Many cultivars have been developed for improved quality w ...
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San Francisco Chronicle
The ''San Francisco Chronicle'' is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California. It was founded in 1865 as ''The Daily Dramatic Chronicle'' by teenage brothers Charles de Young and M. H. de Young, Michael H. de Young. The paper is owned by the Hearst Corporation, which bought it from the de Young family in 2000. It is the only major daily paper covering the city and county of San Francisco. The paper benefited from the growth of San Francisco and had the largest newspaper circulation on the West Coast of the United States by 1880. Like other newspapers, it experienced a rapid fall in circulation in the early 21st century and was ranked 18th nationally by circulation in the first quarter of 2021. In 1994, the newspaper launched the ''SFGate'' website, with a soft launch in March and an official launch on November 3, 1994, including both content from the newspaper and other sources. "The Gate", as it was known at launch, was the first large ma ...
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Contra Costa Times
The ''East Bay Times'' is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Walnut Creek, California, United States, owned by the Bay Area News Group (BANG), a subsidiary of Media News Group, that serves Contra Costa and Alameda counties, in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. It was founded as the ''Contra Costa Times'', and took its current name in 2016 when it was merged with other sister papers in the East Bay. Its oldest merged title is the '' Oakland Tribune'' founded in 1874. History The original ''Contra Costa Times'' was founded by Dean Lesher in 1947, and served central Contra Costa County, especially Walnut Creek. However, Lesher began expanding by purchasing weekly newspapers in neighboring communities, as well as two eastern Contra Costa daily papers, the '' Antioch Ledger'' and the ''Pittsburg Post-Dispatch''. Originally the weekly newspapers were free for shoppers, but Lesher gradually converted the papers to "controlled circulation" in 1962, an aggres ...
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Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
The Tassajara Zen Mountain Center is the oldest Japanese Buddhist Sōtō Zen monastery in the United States. It is on the border of the Ventana Wilderness and within the Los Padres National Forest, southeast of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. The center is only accessible over Chews Ridge via a narrow, steep, one-lane dirt road from Jamesburg. During the winter months the center can be inaccessible due to snow and rain. Practitioners live and study on site. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, the center is open to day and overnight guests. The natural hot springs have been developed into Japanese-style baths. A steam bath is built over a hot spring in Tassajara Creek. The center is the first Zen monastery established outside Asia. History The name is a corruption of ''Tasajera'', a Spanish-American word derived from an indigenous Esselen word, which means "place where meat is hung to dry". The 126-acre mountain property surrounding the Tassajara Hot Springs was purchased by the ...
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Green Gulch Farm
Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, or Sōryu-ji (蒼龍寺 ''Azure Dragon, Green Dragon Temple'') is a Soto Zen practice center located near Muir Beach, California, that practices in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki. In addition to its Zen training program, the center also manages an organic farm and gardens. Founded in 1972 by the San Francisco Zen Center and Zentatsu Richard Baker, the site is located on in a valley north of San FranciscoMcCormick, 45 and offers a variety of workshops and classes throughout the year. The land is an inholding of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and has much wildlife within its borders. In addition to meditation retreats, offerings include classes and workshops on the Japanese tea ceremony and gardening.Cooper, 233 While Green Gulch Farm has a residential monastery and retreat center, guest house, and conference center,Ricci, 14-15 it has also become recognized as a place where organic farmers can come to learn the tools of their trade.Davis, 170 O ...
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Moosewood Restaurant
Moosewood Restaurant (January 3, 1973–present) is an American natural foods restaurant in Ithaca, New York. In 1978, the original founders (Therese Tischler, Judy Barringer, Chris Miller, Patrick McGuire and three others) sold the restaurant to the staff, who became "The Moosewood Collective." In addition to producing a number of cookbooks (by the Moosewood Collective), The Moosewood Restaurant won the '' America's Classics'' award from the James Beard Foundation in 2000, which recognized it as "one of the most popular regional destinations." Overview Moosewood Restaurant was originally founded as a worker collective on January 3, 1973 during the natural foods and Farm-to-table movements within the American counterculture. According to the self-published 1974 ''Moosewood Cookbook'' (created by staff members), "a group of seven people started building oosewood Restaurantin the fall of 1972," and the name was inspired by Patrick, one of the original founders, "who once rea ...
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Chez Panisse
Chez Panisse is a Berkeley, California, restaurant, known as one of the originators of California cuisine and the farm-to-table movement, opened and owned by Alice Waters. The restaurant emphasizes ingredients rather than technique and has developed a supply network of direct relationships with local farmers, ranchers and dairies. The main restaurant, located downstairs, serves a set menu that changes daily and reflects the season's produce. An upstairs cafe offers an a la carte menu at lower prices. History The restaurateur, author, and food activist Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in 1971 with the film producer Paul Aratow, then a professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. It is named for a character in Marcel Pagnol's .''Alice Waters & Chez Panisse'', Thomas McNamee, The Penguin Press, 2007. They set up the restaurant and its menu on the principle that it was of primary importance to use food that was fresh and in season, grown local ...
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California Cuisine
California cuisine is a food movement that originated in Northern California. The cuisine focuses on dishes that are driven by local and sustainable ingredients with an attention to seasonality and an emphasis on the bounty of the region. The food is historically chef-driven; Alice Waters's restaurant Chez Panisse is an iconic example. Dishes and meals low in saturated fats and high in fresh vegetables and fruits with lean meats and seafood from the California coast often define the style. The term "California cuisine" arose as a result of culinary movements in the last decades of the 20th century and is not to be confused with the traditional foods of California. California fusion cuisine has been influenced by French cuisine, American cuisine, Italian cuisine, Mexican cuisine, Chinese cuisine, among other food cultures. History One of the first proponents of using fresh, locally available foods was Helen Evans Brown, who became friends with James Beard after publ ...
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Bantam Books
Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by parent company Random House, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter B. Pitkin Jr., Sidney B. Kramer, and Ian and Betty Ballantine, with funding from Grosset & Dunlap and Curtis Publishing Company. It has since been purchased several times by companies including National General, Carl Lindner's American Financial and, most recently, Bertelsmann, which in 1986 purchased what had grown to become the Bantam Doubleday Dell publishing group. Bertelsmann purchased Random House in 1998, and in 1999 merged the Bantam and Dell imprints (amongst other mergers within the sprawling publishing house) to become the Bantam Dell publishing imprint. In 2010, the Bantam Dell division was consolidated with Ballantine Books (founded in 1952 by Bantam co-founders Ian and Betty Ballantine) to form the Ballantine Bantam Dell group within Random Hous ...
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Annie Somerville
Annie may refer to: People and fictional characters * Annie (given name), a given name and a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Annie (Malayalam actress) (born 1975), Indian actress who works in Malayalam-language films * Annie (Telugu actress) (born 2001), Indian actress who works in Telugu-language films * Annie (singer) (born 1977), Norwegian singer Theatre and film * ''Annie'' (musical), a 1977 musical ** ''Annie'' (1982 film) *** ''Annie'' (1982 film soundtrack) *** '' Annie: A Royal Adventure!'', a 1995 telefilm sequel ** ''Annie'' (1999 film) *** ''Annie'' (1999 film soundtrack) ** ''Annie'' (2014 film) *** ''Annie'' (2014 film soundtrack) * ''Annie'' (1976 film), a British-Italian film Music * ''Annie'' (Anne Murray album) (1972) * "Annie" (song), a 1999 song by Our Lady Peace * "Annie", a song by SafetySuit * "Annie", a song by Pete Townshend from '' Rough Mix'' * "Annie", a 1972 song by Sutherland Brothers * "Annie", a 1995 song by Elas ...
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