Alice Waters

Waylon Lewis: My interview with Michael Pollan re: how to ...

source: AlterNet

 CA Michael, along with Alice Waters and a few thousand farmers and farmers' markets, has led a growing movement to reclaim our food from the growing danger of agribusiness. It's simple, really: eat food, not too much, mostly plants as Pollan puts it in ...

Published Wed, Jun 17

Strawberries Kitchen-Primed

source: Victorville Daily Press

 CA Red Wine Treatment: Culinary maven Alice Waters of Chez Panisse fame writes that in springtime, winemakers all over France enjoy strawberries in red wine ("Chez Panisse Fruit," Harper Collins, $34.95). The strawberries are sliced and added to the red ...

Published Wed, Jun 17

Community Supported Agriculture resources

source: Kansas City Star

 MO In 1971 Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse, a Berkeley, Calif., restaurant serving local, organic, in-season fare. She has since become one of the most influential chefs in the world and has inspired a revolution that has forced Americans to think about ...

Published Wed, Jun 17

House-made WHAT?

source: Reuters

Bastianich told Reuters he is in the process of phasing out water across all his restaurants, following in the footsteps of other environmentally-conscious restaurants like Alice Waters' Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California. In its place, Bastianich is ...

Published Tue, Jun 16

Alice Waters' Crusade For Better Food

source: CBS News

Waters was only 27 years old in 1971 when she opened her French bistro Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., today considered one of the finest restaurants not just in the United States but in the world. Waters has produced eight cookbooks, but she's more ...

Published Mon, Jun 15

Mediavore: Name Your Pandemic

source: MenuPages San Francisco

 CA The pros bring their own fancy jiggers, strainers, and muddlers to work with them, like a chef with his or her prized kinves. [SF Gate] • A whole field of "food prophets" jostle for our attention, but favorites include Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, ...

Published Mon, Jun 15

The Slow Food Movement

source: Examiner.com

Slow Food is a movement based on the idea of creating food from healthy plants and animals - the opposite of Fast Food. Alice Waters, the founder of the movement (Executive Chef and Owner of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, CA) believes "The way we've been ...

Published Sun, Jun 14

Rooftop Bees Give Restaurant Hyperlocal Flavor

source: NPR

When he sang about bees, Muddy Waters couldn't have predicted the Alice Waters revolution. The Berkeley-based chef inspired a whole generation of kitchen artists to go hyper local. And two hotel chefs right here in Washington, DC, Ian Bens and Aron ...

Published Sun, Jun 14