But interest in vegetarian dishes and organic foods has definitely gone mainstream, with many fine restaurants combining fresh, natural ingredients in healthy ways. A world-class chef, Peck keeps refining her art to make healthier and more exciting dishes. Trust her not to sabotage your diet with hidden sugar, flour or fat, and count on being cosseted with cutting-edge creations that wake up your taste buds. Indeed, chefs all over the state are making healthy eating convenient and attractive. Across the board, chefs are insisting on fresh, whole, real, natural, locally and often organically grown ingredients.
Some chefs deal directly with the farmer.
Others grow their own herbs, tomatoes, baby veggies, exotic lettuces. French restaurants have remade themselves-but in their own image. Jettisoning the richest, heaviest dishes on their menus, they remain as French as ever but light and bright and toujours in love with food. So are the Italians. But you knew that.