The judges didn’t expect much from a chicken, but when it played ‘America the Beautiful’, they were floored!

Childhood visits to my grandparent’s farm served to foreshadow raising chickens of my own. Tossing seed corn, herding a mean rooster to the coop, and reaching under a hen to gather a warm egg were ...

They would become the breeds of choice for a new restaurant unlike any other in the Bay Area, devoted entirely to heritage chickens raised at a coastal farm in Pescadero. Cafe Vivant, set to open at ...