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Greens Restaurant is a landmark
Greens Restaurant is a landmark vegetarian
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restaurant in the Fort Mason
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Center in the Marina District, San Francisco, California
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, overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.
Founded by the San Francisco Zen Center in 1979, Greens has been credited in ''The New York Times
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'' as "the restaurant that brought vegetarian food out from sprout-infested health food stores and established it as a cuisine in America."
Annie Somerville was the chef before Denise St. Onge. The current head chef is Katie Reicher. The restaurant utilizes fresh produce from the organic Green Gulch Farm Zen Center
Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, or Sōryu-ji (蒼龍寺 '' Green Dragon Temple'') is a Soto Zen practice center located near Muir Beach, California, that practices in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki. In addition to its Zen training program, the center ...
.
Books
* ''The Greens Cookbook.'' Deborah Madison withEdward Espe Brown
"Kainei" Edward Espé Brown (born March 24, 1945) is an American Zen teacher and writer. He is the author of ''The Tassajara Bread Book'', written at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, as well as other cookbooks that are still influential.
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. Random House
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Broadway imprint. , .
* Fields of Greens. Annie Somerville. Bantam Books.
See also
*California Cuisine
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The food is hi ...
*Chez Panisse
Chez Panisse is a Berkeley, California, restaurant, known as one of the originators of the style of cooking known as California cuisine, and the farm-to-table movement. The restaurant emphasizes ingredients rather than technique and has develo ...
*Moosewood Restaurant
Moosewood Restaurant (January 3, 1973–present) is an American natural foods (vegetarian, vegan, pescetarian) restaurant in Ithaca, New York. In 1978, the original founders sold the restaurant to the staff, who became "The Moosewood Collective ...
* Green Gulch Farm
Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, or Sōryu-ji (蒼龍寺 '' Green Dragon Temple'') is a Soto Zen practice center located near Muir Beach, California, that practices in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki. In addition to its Zen training program, the center ...
* Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
The Tassajara Zen Mountain Center is the oldest Japanese Buddhist Sōtō Zen monastery in the United States. It is on the border of the Ventana Wilderness and within the Los Padres National Forest, southeast of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. T ...
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* San Francisco Zen Center Restaurants in San Francisco Vegetarian restaurants in California Restaurants established in 1979 1979 establishments in California {{Restaurants in San Francisco