Participant(s) Bio
*Please note, this panel discussion featured a screening of the film "Eat at Bill's: Life in the Monterey Market." The film portion of the program is not included in the podcast.
Lisa Brenneis is a drought-tolerant California native who grows organic citrus with her husband in Ojai, California. She recently finished her first feature-length video documentary, Eat at Bill's: Life in the Monterey Market. She supports her movie habit by writing technical reference books for Peachpit Press.
Bill Fujimoto was born in Caldwell ID, in 1946, and raised in Berkeley, CA. A 1968 graduate of the University of California, he worked for five years as a mechanical engineer at Lockheed, Sunnyvale, before deciding to join his parents' Berkeley store. Founded in 1962, Monterey Market is an independent market, specializing in fresh produce in season. Monterey Market currently grosses $15 million/yr at a single location in north Berkeley. The business has grown up with the food revolution in Northern California, and has a strong commitment to supporting local agriculture and sustainable farming practices. Bill Fujimoto was a founding member of the San Francisco Ferry Plaza Market Collaborative.
www.montereymarket.com
A journalist since 1983, Paul Roberts writes and lectures frequently on the complex interplay of economics, technology, and the natural world. He is the author of The End of Oil and most recently The End of Food. Roberts has also written for the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and the (UK) Guardian and has appeared in Slate, USA Today, the New Republic, Newsweek, the Christian Science Monitor, Rolling Stone, and Outside magazine. In June, 2008, he will publish a piece on peak oil for National Geographic. Roberts was a finalist for the National Magazine Award (1999) and for the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism in 2005.
A long-time observer of energy issues and politics, Roberts appears regularly on national and international television and radio news shows, including CNN's Lou Dobbs, the BBC, PBS NewsHour, MSNBC, CBS Evening News, and on NPR's Morning Edition, On Point, Weekend Edition, and Fresh Air.
Evan Kleiman, renowned owner and executive chef of one of LA's favorite restaurants, Angeli Caffe, and best-selling author of numerous cookbooks, including Cucina Fresca and Pasta Fresca, has been the host of Good Food on KCRW since 1998. Kleiman brings to Good Food a rich and varied background -- as scholar of Italian cooking and culture, entrepreneur and trend-setter for the popular trattoria concept, avid gardener, and admired teacher and chef -- which has won her the esteem of her culinary colleagues both here and abroad.
In addition to her restaurant and writing pursuits, Kleiman also serves on the Board of Directors of the Hollywood Farmers' Market and on the Board of Overseers of The Chef's Collaborative 2000 -- organizations which are devoted to educating the public on issues of sustainability.
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