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This Chef Has a Favor to Ask the Food Industry on Behalf of Planet Earth
Dominique Crenn is leading a charge
It’s not like Dominique Crenn doesn’t have enough to do — helming her three-Michelin-starred restaurant, Atelier Crenn, and two others; landing a spot among the World’s 50 Best Restaurants; preparing to open a new restaurant in San Francisco’s Salesforce Tower; battling breast cancer, and raising twin daughters. Now, she’s spearheading climate change activism for the industry.
“Food Industry,” Crenn wrote on Instagram Tuesday afternoon. “I’m calling on everyone…to share this post and write ONE THING in the caption that they are going to start doing today to fight the climate emergency.”
In addition to posting her wake-up call, she announced her newest location, the soon-to-open Boutique Crenn, aims to be super sustainable — meaning no disposable coffee cups or to-go bags.
Crenn posted just before she hosted the Basque Culinary World Prize Tuesday in San Francisco. That city’s Anthony Myint won the prize for his work in founding the Zero Foodprint project and The Perennial Farming Initiative. (He also co-founded Mission Street Food with Karen Leibowitz, along with Mission Chinese Food and the Perennial, now closed.)
