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Jeremiah "Jere" Gettle is saving food from extinction. Hyperbole? Yes. But every time a rare heirloom vegetable cedes it... Read more

John Nese is the proprietor of Galco's Soda Pop Stop in LA. His father ran it as a grocery store, and when the time came... Read more

Here's the cliche: Alex Hozven craved pickles when she was pregnant with her first son, 12 years ago. And the twist: She... Read more

Sean Thackrey is a winemaker, indeed, but he is so much more: an archivist, historian, linguist, photographer, art colle... Read more

Nach Waxman is owner of one of the largest food bookstores in the country, Kitchen Arts & Letters, in Manhattan. Fro... Read more

Ann Cooper was a celebrity chef before she wrote a book, Bitter Harvest, that got her thinking about the connection betw... Read more

Author, television host, entrepreneur, and cheese expert Will Studd has fought to allow raw-milk cheese to be sold in Au... Read more

Rebecca Federman, librarian, blogger, and menu aficionado, takes CHOW into the bowels of the New York Public Library, sh... Read more

An oven built by hand, tile by tile. Four pizzas on the menu, with no fancy-pants toppings. Anthony Mangieri does one th... Read more

Sonoma County beekeeper Serge Labesque treats his bees with respect, though that’s probably not all that’s needed to sav... Read more