Slow Food Pioneers Rebuild a California Cuisine

Abstract

In the small university town of Berkeley, California, rose a generation of food enthusiasts willing to battle the supremacy of fast food and pioneer a new way to think about how we nourish our bodies. From their endeavors during the decades of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s grew the basis of what many labeled California Cuisine. Each of them cooked, created, wrote, and educated☺ a new consumer-friendly generation in the forgotten art of haute cuisine and the need for quality local, seasonal, and organic foods.