A decade ago, Kyle and Katina Connaughton (pictured above) opened a restaurant in Healdsburg, California, with a simple but radical premise. They believed a fine dining experience could root itself entirely in the present moment; in what the farm yielded that morning, in the current season, and in the particular light of a particular day in Sonoma. Ten years on, SingleThread holds three Michelin stars and has expanded to Kyoto. It has become one of the most consequential restaurants of the 21st century, never drifting from its founding premise. SingleThread interior, photo by Garrett Rowland The Story of Today “The story of today” has become the defining phrase of the SingleThread experience. Kyle says the restaurant didn’t consciously open with this ethos, but always embodied it. Each morning, Katina delivers her harvest from the  24-acre farm that supplies the kitchen. In doing so, she sets the menu’s emotional and seasonal temperature. “As a chef, every day I want to tell the story of the farm,” Kyle explains. “Katina is telling her story through her ingredients and flowers, saying this is what’s ready and in peak season.” The result is a menu that functions as a dispatch from the land. It…