| Cheese Board Collective | |
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 Exterior of Cheese Board Pizza | |
| Restaurant information | |
| Established | 1967 |
| Owner(s) | Collectively owned |
| Food type | Cheese shop/bakery and pizzeria |
| City | Berkeley |
| State | California |
| Country | U.S. |
| Website | cheeseboardcollective.coop |
The Cheese Board Collective in Berkeley, California, comprises two worker-owned-and-operated businesses: a cheese shop/bakery commonly referred to as "The Cheese Board" and a pizzeria known as "Cheese Board Pizza". Along with Peet's Coffee, the Cheese Board is known for its role in starting the North Shattuck neighborhood of Berkeley on its way to becoming famous as a culinary destination: the "Gourmet Ghetto". The bakery brought the French baguette into vogue for Berkeley consumers, and helped spark a revolution in artisan bread.[1]
The Cheese Board is located at 1504 Shattuck Avenue and Cheese Board Pizza is located two doors down the street at 1512 Shattuck Avenue.[2] In 2003, the Cheese Board Collective put together a cookbook, The Cheese Board: Collective Works.[3][4]
- ^ Goldstein, Joyce (2013). Inside the California Food Revolution: Thirty Years That Changed Our Culinary Consciousness. California studies in food and culture. Vol. 44. University of California Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-0520956704.
- ^ Although townspeople, newspapers and even the Cheese Board website frequently spell the name of the business as a single word—"Cheeseboard"—the members of the collective chose to consistently refer to their business with two words in The Cheese Board: Collective Works, their cookbook/history published in 2003.
- ^ Fletcher, Janet (October 8, 2003). "A cheese shop grows in Berkeley: After 36 years, a venerable workers' collective is still going strong". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ Parker, Susan (October 17, 2003). "Tasting the Cheese Board's Collective Works". The Berkeley Daily Planet.