2010
Chef Geoff’s caters to organic aficionados
At 3201 New Mexico Avenue NW, Washington, D.C., Chef Geoff Tracy prepares for another chaotic day at his D.C. restaurant, Chef Geoff’s, which is located near the American University campus. The graduate of the Culinary Institute of America (CIA, “pies, not spies”) has climbed the entrepreneurial ladder after having “jumped off the entrepreneurial cliff.” He [...]
Berkeley: free-thinkers blaze their own fashion trails
Berkeley style in a brief sentence? Said tourist George Hedges, “Individualism. Character. I don’t think you can bottle that.” Though he may be visiting from England, his personal philosophy on fashion describes the whole Berkeley community. It’s this particular outlook that makes the city’s style unique, said young people interviewed recently recently for a random survey. Student [...]
Farmers’ market lives up to slogan
BERKELEY, Calif. —Most people systematize their groceries list and wake up on Saturday to buy from the local grocery chain. Yet at Center St. at Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley Farmers’ Market lives up to its slogan of “environment, community, justice.” Open from 10am-3pm, Berkeley Farmer’s Market is bustling and lively with [...]
Cal and the green initiative
BERKELEY, Calif.—”Pretty much everyone I know here recycles,” says Makossa Sweetyne, 33, a California Hall Security guard at the University of California at Berkeley. The name “Berkeley” itself elicits feelings of environmental awareness and progressive thinking. The recycling issue is no different. In a recent informal survey on the UC-Berkeley campus, there was a resounding [...]
Personal relationships draw customers to farmers’ market
BERKELEY, Calif. — On the corner of Milivia and Center on any given Saturday morning, the aromas of sweet apple cider and the sharp scent of cheese hang in the air around the Berkeley Farmers’ Market. Like any commercial supermarket, the farmers’ market is difficult to navigate because of the hundreds of people all in search for the [...]
What’s new in news industry: personal observations
Teen Observer staffers visited the San Francisco Chronicle, also home of SFGate.com, and also the new non-profit Bay Citizen, with offices a half-mile away. Both cover the Bay area but under different models and with different-sized staffs. Chronicle Managing Editor Stephen Proctor shared his personal story — a college history major whose first job was [...]
Berkeley’s open-air market: venue for community connection
BERKELEY, Calif.—Bright tents, colorful fruit stands, and freshly baked pastries greet Berkeley residents on an early Saturday morning at the city’s largest Farmers’ Market, founded by the Berkeley Ecology Center in 1987. At the corner of Center and Martin Luther King Jr. streets, customers stroll and shop at more than 60 vendors, most whom have been selling their [...]
Chez Panisse: Out of the farm, into the frying pan
BERKELEY, Calif. — A plate arrives from the kitchen of Chez Panisse bearing a a sea bass coated with shell beans, zucchini, scallions and cherry tomatoes in the form of relish. A hungry stomach will demand to be fed, but never wonders where the food came from or about the long process it underwent to [...]
Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse: Where bold is the norm
BERKELEY, Calif. — In a shady Berkeley alcove, revolution is slowly cooking. Behind a moss-dusted facade on Shattuck Avenue, Chez Panisse is an inconspicuous presence. Yet with an all-organic menu, and a strong role in food politics, the restaurant holds a stronger influence than one would think. Chez Panisse, established by Alice Waters in 1971, [...]
Personal relationships draw customers to farmers’ market
BERKELEY, Calif. — On the corner of Milivia and Center on any given Saturday morning, the aromas of sweet apple cider and the sharp scent of cheese hang in the air around the Berkeley Farmers’ Market. Like any commercial supermarket, the farmers’ market is difficult to navigate because of the hundreds of people all in search for the [...]
