The California Issue

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The California Issue explores the enduring impact that Golden State food, chefs and ingredients have on the American food scene as a whole. We head to Los Angeles to see how some of the city's most interesting restaurants ended up in strip malls; look at how California cuisine extends beyond San Francisco and Los Angeles to Tahoe, Sacramento and beyond; and trace how Alice Waters' Chez Panisse birthed a national food movement. Find these stories, and much more, in our California Issue.