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Susan Wood/Getty Images.opened her Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse in 1971, the first dinner menu consisted of pâté en croute, canard aux olives, plum tart, and café, priced at $3.95.

The dishes seemed simple, but the ingredients were revolutionary.Take the canard aux olives: while other restaurants at the time served duck dishes using frozen poultry, Waters bought fresh ducks from Chinatown earlier that morning.Waters' insistence on the best, freshest ingredients established her as a pioneer in the farm-to-table movement.

Chez Panisse's success—captured here by photographer Susan Wood as the staff raised a glass of champagne to ring in New Year's Day, 1982—paved the way for the farm-to-table movement, and the ascent of organic food in America.. 14. of 34."Still Life With Waterfowl," 1873 , Charles Philippe Auguste Carey.

Charles Philippe Auguste Carey, Still Life with Waterfowl, ca.

1873 / Courtesy of Bibliothèque Nationale de France.Hestan’s OvenBond Collection.

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