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Slow Food Festival Fires Up
Alice Waters announced a huge public celebration to be held in San Francisco next May 1-4 (that's 2008), to be called Slow Food Nation.
05.15.07
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- peggy knickerbocker,
- cookbooks,
- san francisco,
- slow food,
- alice waters
chefs + restaurants
First Taste: Spork
The hippest stretch of Valencia Street, in the Mission District, just got a lot hipper, thanks to Bruce Binns unpretentiously chic diner, Spork, in a former KFC.
06.13.07
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- peggy knickerbocker,
- san francisco,
- first taste
travel + culture
Peru’s Secret Seafood Sensation
The makeshift restaurant is only open from 11 to 5 and consists of nothing more than two bricks walls strung with fishnet overhead.
06.04.07
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- restaurants,
- south america,
- seafood,
- latino,
- peggy knickerbocker
chefs + restaurants
Hello, Dalai
My friend Shaina Robbins was among a group of Midwest chefs who were invited to cook for the Dalai Lama in Madison, Wisconsin for the dedication of a new Buddhist temple.
05.08.07
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- peggy knickerbocker,
- chefs
travel + culture
Workers' Paradise in Buenos Aires
I gasped as I walked into El Obrero, in a run-down part of town. It was the kind of place I've been trying to track down all my life.
04.27.07
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- peggy knickerbocker,
- buenos aires,
- restaurants
food politics
From the Ground Up, In New Orleans
In New Orleans during Katrina two years ago, more than a foot of floodwater inundated the schoolyard at the Green Charter School.
02.11.07
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- peggy knickerbocker,
- sustainability,
- new orleans,
- alice waters
food politics
How Now, Straus Cow?
Straus Family Creamery, became the first organic dairy west of the Mississippi when it converted, in 1993, to the sustainable model it is today.
01.13.07
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- peggy knickerbocker,
- sustainability,
- farm-to-table
travel + culture
In Paris, How Sweet It Is
A beekeeping friend asked me to visit a couple of honey stores (La
Maison du Miel and Les Ruchers du Roy) in Paris recently, opening the doors to a subculture of beekeeping—agriculture—that I had no
idea existed....
01.10.07
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- peggy knickerbocker,
- culinary culture,
- paris
travel + culture
2006: The Year in Travel
What was your most memorable trip this
year? A culinary tour of China. I had 77 meals in 17 days.
12.26.06
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- peggy knickerbocker,
- the year in travel
food + cooking
Complaint Department: Truffles in Paris
A group of friends gathered to celebrate the 50th birthday of Randal Breski, whose partner, David Tanis, is a chef at Chez Panisse.
12.14.06
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- peggy knickerbocker,
- ingredients,
- paris,
- thanksgiving