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...standing naked in a linen closet at the old Rockefeller farm outside New York City when I began to wonder if I had gone too far for a meal. John Rockefeller Sr. probably wouldn?t think so: in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he had assembled some 4,000 acres in this part of New York State, some of the most verdant land in the Hudson River valley. It?s a lovely spot that brims with history - Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., is nearby - and as good as any place to be naked in a linen closet...
...Chef Dan Barber and I had been caught in a thunderstorm as he gave me a preprandial tour of the center, which includes not only the eponymous barns (they now house the restaurant, the education center, an espresso caf? and a vegetable market) but also a working farm, which grows much of the food for the restaurant and its sister Blue Hill outpost in Manhattan. The center cost David Rockefeller - the last of John Sr.?s six grandchildren, he is now 91 - about $30 million...
...Rockefeller built the place as a tribute to his wife, Peggy, who - before her death in 1996 - had helped found the American Farmland Trust. The center is only three years old, but already it has become a model for how a farm can directly supply a restaurant, which in turn helps fund educational programs for anyone who wants to learn more about where their food comes from...
...Restoring the link between the farm and the table is an ambition shared by a growing number of restaurants. That?s also not new: it was the driving idea behind the fresh-above-all restaurants that launched the U.S. food revolution in the 1970s and ?80s. But most of those pioneering restaurants - led by chef Alice Waters? Chez Panisse - were in California, where anything can grow and where it would be silly not to supply a restaurant from a nearby farm...
...says. "It certainly bears efforts from independent labs to try and confirm it. Obviously, anything that helps with making a diagnosis early could be potentially beneficial - all the new drugs in clinical trials act at the very earliest stages of the disease. But I would not sell the farm to buy this until it's been replicated...