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Photos by Matt Girvan

On the second night of Passover, chefs Gayle Pirie and John Cook prepared a special Slow Food Seder just for Heeb readers. Pirie and Clark have been at the forefront of the San Francisco restaurant scene for decades, with long-standing tenures at both Zuni Cafe and Chez Panisse. They spent nearly two years in Hong Kong developing two new restaurants, and have traveled widely in Europe and Asia researching locally produced and artisinal ingredients. In 2001 the duo took over the kitchen of Foreign Cinema and implemented an ever-changing Mediterranean influenced menu, earning the restaurant three stars from The San Francisco Chronicle and six consecutive "Top 100" rankings as well as rave reviews from the New York Times, Gourmet and Cosmopolitan.