I have long dreamed of eat­ing at famed Berke­ley restau­rant Chez Panisse.

At an Asso­ci­a­tion of Food Jour­nal­ists gath­er­ing in the Napa Val­ley more than a decade ago, I tried, with­out suc­cess, to find a way to make that pil­grim­age.  Read more…