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We are just getting around to reading this article, written by Raymond Sokolov for the Wall Street Journal.

Nice guy chef Eric Ripert (otherwise known as best friends with Laurent Manrique).

Chef Eric Ripert of NYC’s Le Bernardin was in town last week to promote his excellent new cookbook, On The Line (Artisan). Co-authored by Christine Muhlke, it’s a look behind the scenes (danger, drama!) at one of the country’s most revered fine-dining restaurants. Twenty years into it, Ripert has a lot to say.

07/18/073:48 pm

Garden Variety

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In the hands of one of the Bay Area’s most talented chefs, a summer harvest becomes something sublime.

In the hands of one of the Bay Area’s most talented chefs, a summer harvest becomes something sublime.Manresa restaurant may well be the finest reason we can think of to get out of town—in this case, heading 50 miles south, to the swanky suburb of Los Gatos. There, eating local isn’t just some idea that’s given lip service. It’s the guiding principle of David Kinch’s five-year-old restaurant, which at the height of the season sources nearly all its vegetables from a dedicated kitchen garden located 20 minutes away, on a plot of land in the Santa Cruz Mountains called Love Apple Farm.