"Christine Dabney" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 10:27:01 -0800, "Kent" >
> wrote:
>
>>As I recently posted, Michael Wild, owner-chef of a great Alsatian
>>restaurant in Oakland, CA does cassoulet each winter.
>
> Bay Wolf is not an Alsatian restaurant..it is a California Cuisine
> restaurant. Always has been, even if he does make cassoulet every
> winter.
> Michael Wild is in the same group of chefs that started about the same
> time as Alice Waters...and helped get California cuisine off the
> ground in the bay area.
>
> Christine
> --
>
Michael's food is pretty French, more so than Alice Waters' Chez Panisse. I
was in error about it being an Alsatian restaurant. California cuisine
originated in the Bay Area and then spread to the rest of California.

Kent