Happy 50th birthday to Chez Panisse, the Berkeley restaurant that launched farm-to-fork eating
- Written by Paul Freedman, Chester D. Tripp Professor of History, Yale University

When a small restaurant called Chez Panisse opened its doors 50 years ago in Berkeley, California, it wasn’t obvious that it would change how Americans thought about eating. The first menu on Aug. 28, 1971, was pâté baked in pastry, duck with olives,...