Alice Waters

Alice Waters: Trendsetter for relishing food

source: Thaindian.com

 Thailand Alice Waters, who is also the owner of Chez Panisse restaurant, claims to have her own meat, poultry, fish and vegetable farms, garden of fruits. The key ingredients for several dishes are gathered aiming to sustain the immediacy and freshness in the ...

Published Mon, Jun 15

Behind the food industry's iron curtain

source: Salon

Locavores and organic mavens like Pollan (author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and "In Defense of Food") or pioneering chef Alice Waters have long argued that the American diet is unhealthy, wasteful of resources and ecologically destructive. ... Michael Pollan, Garden Fresh TheTyee.ca

Published Thu, Jun 11

Commencement and Promotion - Chronicle of Higher Education

source: Chronicle of Higher Education

subscription) For the most part, the honorary degree recipients were pretty traditional: Ruby Dee Davis and Meryl Streep (two notably intelligent and interesting actresses), Alice Waters (the chef and sustainable food advocate), an emeritus faculty member (as is our ...

Published Thu, Jun 11

To Do

source: Washington Post

 United States BOOK SIGNING: Alice Waters discusses and signs copies of her "Edible School Yard." Organized by Smithsonian Enterprises. Free. 1-4 pm Stars and Stripes Cafe, lower level, National Museum of American History, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. ...

Published Tue, Jun 9

Sacramento summer literary, slow-food events, part 1

source: Examiner.com

Last week, local food and book lovers joined slow food goddess Alice Waters in conversation with Craig McNamara, Winters' sustainable food movement leader ... and more »

Published Tue, Jun 9

Top 10 favorite cookbooks that are nutritious and delicious

source: Examiner.com

The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters. This sustainable food activist has also been listed by the James Beard Foundation as Best Chef in America in 1992. All the Moosewood Restaurant Cookbooks by the Moosewood Collective. ...

Published Thu, Jun 4

Garden advocate sees growth in industry

source: Leader

 WI By JM Hirsch AP After waiting nearly 20 years to see a vegetable garden planted at the White House, Alice Waters is waiting again. This time it's to see how many Americans will follow the lead of first lady Michelle Obama, who recently made Waters' ...

Published Mon, Jun 1

The Blog That Brought Me Home Again

source: gourmet.com

 New York My parents, Lindsey and Charles Shere, were partners with Alice Waters in Chez Panisse from the beginning; Mom was the founding pastry chef. Food framed our lives. Mom tended a small city garden with a pear tree and fraises des bois. ...

Published Fri, May 29