Alice created the extremely influential restaurant Chez Panisse (chezpanisse.com) in Berkeley, CA back in the early 1970's. California Cuisine and the farm to table movements can both be traced back to Alice. The list of great chefs who've "graduated" from Chez Panisse is long and impressive. The food is as well. Dinner at Chez Panisse is worth the effort (reservations only, taken starting 30 days in advance) and the cost (not cheap, but also not outrageous)
Kermit is the owner of Kermit Lynch Wine Merchants (www.kermitlynch.com). He has championed small, traditional wineries producing unfiltered, not-so-international styled wines. As a personal aside, the worldwide growth of high alcohol and over-extracted wines (Do we really need a 16.6% alcohol chardonnay that will disintegrate in the bottle after about 2 years?) is one of the worst developments in my opinion in the history of wine. Even worse than White Zinfandel! The wines Kermit chooses to import are true to type, pure and yummy- The way they were meant to be! Look for his importer logo on the back labels at your local wine shop,
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