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...Beverly Hills, Calif., in 1978 as a place to feature the cheesecakes that Overton's parents made in their nearby bakery. "I just set out to help my parents," he says. Overton had no training in food and no "culinary influence" other than hours spent hanging out in San Francisco cafés. So he stuffed the sandwiches with sprouts, served espresso drinks nine years before Starbucks did and kept himself open to new ideas. In California in the 1980s, they were everywhere. Early on, he added burritos and a stir-fry to the menu. He loved casual Asian-inspired restaurants...
Fisher is one of more than 1,000 "locavores," self-styled concerned culinary adventurers, who took the pledge last month to eat nothing--or almost nothing--but sustenance drawn from within 100 miles of their home. The movement began last year when four San Francisco-- area foodies designated August 2005 as the first Eat Local Challenge and launched a website, Locavores.com They were inspired by the book Coming Home to Eat, ecologist Gary Paul Nabham's account of his yearlong effort to restrict himself to native foods near his Arizona home. Soon some 60 bloggers had joined the 100-mile...
...Morocco are cheaper. Spain's good schools, health care and modern infrastructure will keep European snowbirds coming, but foreign buyers are already scarcer. "Until last year we were selling 20 to 25 properties, mostly to British, but now it is down to 18 to 20 a month," says Francisco Toro, director of Mark-Sol real estate agency in Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol. "When we get a client now, we must cosset him and treat him like gold dust. We have to work harder and spend more money on publicity." The influx of foreign cash has its darker side...
...alone. Over the past five years, major zoos across the country--San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, the Bronx Zoo in New York City--have quietly made the decision to stop exhibiting elephants altogether, some as soon as they can find homes for the animals and others after the deaths of the ones they have. For zookeepers, it's a continuation of a reform movement that began a generation ago and swept through most major U.S. zoos. The old concrete-and-steel cages that resembled prisons for animals are mostly gone. In fact, the cages themselves are mostly gone. The barriers...
...received both a bachelor’s and master’s of science degree. After completing post-doctoral work at Yale in the mid-1970s, she became a professor at University of California, Berkeley for 12 years and then assumed a professorship at University of California, San Francisco...