Edible Pursuit: Why We Cook 2
Deborah Madison was decades ahead of her time when she opened her influential restaurant in San Francisco in 1979. One of the first farm-driven restaurants in the Bay Area, this restaurant is often credited with transforming vegetarian food into sophisticated cuisine. What was the name of the restaurant?
- Stars
- Greens
- Chez Panisse
The answer is Greens, which 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.”