What California Cuisine’s Past Tells Us About Its Future. Into the 1980s, the heart of the California food revolution was also a hub of French fine dining.

You hear a lot about “California cuisine,” but 40 years after it started to creep into our consciousness, no one has yet been able to define it.

This is where her food education began, and where her cuisine took its unique shape. Her food education continued for 15 childhood years, until she traveled to America to attend college at age 16.

This could go down as the year when chefs finally embraced California cuisine. That may seem like a strange thing to say since Alice Waters led the "local and seasonal" charge decades ago, but ...

The children of immigrants, they are crafting food that is true to its roots yet open to the other cultures that swirl around L.A. County. You can enjoy the references—often nostalgic—as a ...

Stories of the life and times and food of Akira Hirose, who died Sept. 26 at the age of 70, were flowing last Saturday night at the Little Tokyo restaurant Azay, which the chef opened in 2019 ...

Brazilian-Spiced Oven-Roasted Chicken in San Francisco, Calif., on February 19, 2009. Food styled by Shannon Shafer.

What they found was an earlier incarnation of California cuisine, fittingly fresh and local, farmed and foraged, diverse and polished. Mr. Medina then worked at Berkeley Bowl , a specialty food ...

California cuisine is a story of immigrants, and each of the unique stories that brought them to California, writes Wu-Bower, the chef-partner of Pacific Standard Time, which recently opened in ...