The French painter Paul Cezanne once wrote that, ?The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.? His pronouncement has proved prescient, if not necessarily in the way he predicted. The first shots of the food revolution in the United States were, arguably, fired by Alice Waters at Berkeley?s Chez […]The post The 5 Best Green Restaurants In the US appeared first on Pursuitist.

The French painter Paul Cezanne once wrote that, ?The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.?His pronouncement has proved prescient, if not necessarily in the way he predicted. The first shots of the food revolution in the United States were, arguably, fired by Alice Waters at Berkeley?s Chez Panisse, who raised the banner on behalf of local, organic and sustainable cuisine.The political implications of mixed seasonal greens with local goat cheese have become clear over the decades.  She, joined by other chefs and food critics, has educated diners about the health risks of pesticides, the environmental costs of factory farms and the carbon footprints of certain fruits and vegetables imported from South America during our winter.The solution proposed by countless politically-minded chefs has been to support small-scale farms close to home. And while the cause has been advanced by both humble food co-ops and celebrity chefs, spurring a locavore and farm-to-table movement that has swept across America in recent year...