Moosewood Restaurant
| Moosewood Restaurant | |
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| Street address | 215 N. Cayuga Street |
| City | Ithaca, New York |
| State | New York |
| Postal code/ZIP | 14850 |
| Website | moosewoodrestaurant.com |
Moosewood Restaurant is a restaurant that was founded in 1973 by Therese Tischler, Judy Barringer, Chris Miller, Josh Katzen and others in 1973 in downtown Ithaca, New York. Moosewood is located on the first floor of the Dewitt Mall building, which is a converted high school. When The Seed Company (a bookstore cafe) closed the owners gave Therese Tischler the money they had left saying, we're giving this ($1200)to you because we know you'll find something good to do with it. Therese had been politically active as a student at Cornell and was very concerned with ecology and the health of people and the planet. The work of Frances Moore Lappe and Adele Davis formed part of her inspiration. She wanted to open a vegetarian restaurant and went to Judy Barringer and Chris Miller with the idea. About a year later Moosewood opened it's doors.
Moosewood Restaurant is known for its vegetarian cooking, and was named one of the thirteen most influential restaurants of the 20th century by Bon Appetit magazine.[1] It won a James Beard Foundation "American Classic" Award in 2000. While they are most known for vegetarian cuisine, their menu does feature a daily fish entree.
Frozen Moosewood dinners under the Moosewood name are available in grocery stores. The meals were produced, under license, by Fairfield Farm Kitchens until March 2008, at which point Blue Marble Brands (part of United Natural Foods) purchased the license.
The restaurant is owned by a collective which operates the restaurant and writes and publishes cookbooks. The collective has produced over 10 cookbooks over the years, beginning with New Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant, and its most recent Simple Suppers from Moosewood Restaurant.[2] In 2010, the Moosewood Collective donated its archive of original cookbook manuscripts to Cornell University where they are housed in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections in the Carl A. Kroch Library. [3] [4]
References
- ↑ Brand, Madeleine (October 26, 2005). "More Good Eats from the Moosewood Collective". NPR. Retrieved November 15, 2011.
- ↑ Soule, Jessica (October 20, 2011). "Author, chef to sign, present cookbooks". The Citizen. Retrieved November 15, 2011.
- ↑ Erika Hooker. "Moosewood Donates Manuscripts to University". The Cornell Daily Sun. Retrieved October 15, 2010.
- ↑ "Guide to the Moosewood Collective Records, 1973-2010". Cornell University Library: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. Retrieved November 15, 2011.
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