Fanny Singer shares memories from her unconventional childhood, growing up in the revered Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California alongside her mother, legendary chef Alice Waters. She describes how the restaurant’s staff became an extended family (often referred to as “La Famille Panisse”), talks about the sophisticated palate she developed...

The Cheese Board Collective is a fifty-year-old worker-owned cooperative business located in Berkeley, California. On this week's episode Elena chats with worker-owners and cheese buyers Omri Avraham and Linh Nguyen about the collective's unique operational approach. Some highlights: full-time employees get five and a half weeks vacation each year, everyone...

Frances Moore Lappé is an iconic activist thinker on society and democracy: which she explores through the universal lens of food. Her first book Diet for a Small Planet, published in 1971, has since sold over 3 million copies and helped shift the narrative of hunger. In 2008, it was...

Mandy Aftel is world renowned expert in the natural fragrance field and is the founder of Aftelier Perfumes, a Berkeley-based company. She creates bespoke fragrances for her clients and also has a line of culinary essences and sprays for use in professional and home kitchens. Mandy has written several books...

Alice Waters is the chef, author, and food activist who founded the legendary Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California. She has been a champion of local, sustainable agriculture for over four decades. In 1995, she founded the Edible Schoolyard Project, which advocates for school lunch and a sustainable food curriculum...

What distinguishes a foodie from a food asshole? This week on How to Behave, Brian Keyser and Hannah Howard break it down with guests Michael Floreak and David McIntyre. Michael recently wrote The Food Asshole's Dilemma, and David is a food professional living in Portland, OR (food asshole capital of...

On today's THE FOOD SEEN, Patricia Curtan is a printmaker, long associated with Alice Waters. If you've ever been to Chez Panisse in Berkley, CA, it's Patrica's letterpress, woodcut and linoleum block reliefs, which have graced the restaurant's menus for over 40 years. Inspired by 16th century European herbals and...

Sunnyside Organic Seedlings was founded in 2004 by Vernay 'Pilar' Reber, a graduate of the UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems program. She and the rest of the Sunnyside crew are thrilled to be growing organic starts in the San Francisco Bay Area - a place...

Technology, burritos, and music are the themes on this week's Snacky Tunes. Darin and Greg Bresnitz call up Karin Muskopf from Bing to talk about their recent dinner with Marcus Samuelson. Hear Karin explain why Bing is the ultimate search engine for food enthusiasts. Later, Leo and Oliver Kremer of...

Hear how Let's Get Real has evolved from a podcast into a TEDx talk on this week's episode. Erica Wides talks about how she went from the world of guerilla PR to the main stage for TEDx Berkeley. Later, Erica performs her TEDx speech for her Let's Get Real listeners...