Atlas

Place

• San Francisco
• Tartine Bakery
• Cowgirl Creamery
• Ferry Building
• Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company
• Napa Valley
• Sonoma County
• Acme Bread Company

In this chapter

• Acme Bread Company — A Berkeley bakery founded in 1983 to supply restaurants with long-fermented hearth bread, later also baking at the San Francisco Ferry Building.
• Arizmendi Bakery (9th Avenue) — A worker-owned cooperative bakery in San Francisco’s Inner Sunset, part of a Bay Area network that began from Cheese Board recipes and know-how.
• Boudin Bakery — A San Francisco bakery dating its sour French bread to 1849, still operating in the city, and the usual public face of “San Francisco sourdough.”
• Cheese Board Collective — A Berkeley worker-owned cheese shop, bakery, and pizzeria, operating as a collective since 1971, and a parent of the Arizmendi bakery network.
• Cowgirl Creamery — A North Bay cheesemaker whose public home is now presented as Sonoma County work; its Ferry Building shop closed in 2021.
• Ferry Building — San Francisco’s Ferry Building Marketplace, a historic waterfront hall of food merchants at the foot of Market Street.
• Giusto's Vita-Grain — A South San Francisco grain processor and wholesaler, dating itself to 1940, that supplies flours and other bakery ingredients to Western bakers.
• Marin County — A North Bay county whose coastal dairies feed San Francisco’s cheese imagination more than its vineyard fame.
• Napa Valley — California’s first American Viticultural Area (1981): a small, fog-and-hill grape-growing valley north of San Pablo Bay, not a list of tasting rooms.
• Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company — A West Marin dairy that became a creamery in 2000, still making Original Blue on the Tomales Bay farm while running a second plant in Petaluma.
• San Francisco — A city whose bakeries, markets, and immigrant kitchens make it a defining setting for Gourmet Gastronomer.
• Sonoma County — A North Bay county of fog-cooled vineyards, dairy plants, and towns that supply wine and cheese to the Bay Area.
• Tartine Bakery — A San Francisco bakery on Guerrero Street, known publicly for bread and pastry, used here as an atlas node rather than a review.

Sources & further exploration