Chef

Dan Barber

World-renowned chef and fervent activist in favor of restoring the link between food production and consumption, Dan Barber is a pioneering chef of the farm-to-plate movement in the United States. In the early 2000s, he created a gourmet restaurant in the midst of cultivated fields and livestock farms, in collaboration with the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture.

In 2014, he also published The Third Plate-Fields, notes on the future of food, in which he expresses his vision of agriculture and food.

Organization

Stone Barns Center For Food & Agriculture

The Stone Barns Center For Food & Agriculture is a non-profit farm and educational center founded in 2004 in the Hudson Valley, New York. It is focused on promoting innovation in ecological farming practices. Their research and training campus is shared with chef Dan Barber’s restaurant, Blue Hill at Stone Barns. It brings together researchers, farmers, chefs, guests and artisans to explore sustainable agriculture and promote a fairer, more environmentally-friendly food system.

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