The Bay Area Homegrown Cookbook

As Executive Chef at the Sunny Side Café, with locations in Berkeley and Albany, California, Aaron French strives to use local ingredients in all the dishes he prepares. His daily job is to keep his finger on the pulse of what local farmers are offering so he can create new options for his customers as the seasons change. Aaron’s studies of Ecology at UC San Diego and San Francisco State University, and sustainability at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, reinforce his appreciation of a sustainable local food system. Chef French was the EcoChef columnist for ten Bay Area News Group newspapers and a contributing author for The New Green Grocer Cookbook. His writing and photography have been published by a wide range of print and online media including National Geographic, U.S. News and World Report, Gastronomica, and American Scientist.

Elizabeth Tichenor is a California native who shoots food and editorial photography in the San Francisco Bay Area. You can see more of her work on her website www.elizabethtichenor.com.