Marché Press
Sunset Magazine
July 2007
"No restaurateur in the Willamette Valley has been dealing directly with farmers longer than chef Stephanie Pearl Kimmel of Eugene's Marché restaurant. Thirty-five years ago, she opened her first restaurant - and quickly realized how limited the local produce selection was for chefs. The only way to get radicchio, it seemed, was to smuggle in seeds from France - so she did, handing them over to a local farmer."