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02 Sep 2009 16:40:45 PDT

Written by Gary Alan Fine(noreply@blogger.com)
Dessert was Middleton Gardens raspberry ice cream crêpes. They were as advertised if you treat the excellent peaches and blackberries as lagniappe. At Chez Panisse, the ingredients are generous. Think of a raspberry crepe, and then think of a raspberry crepe with perfect fruit. That is Che...

Original story at Veal Cheeks .

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Fava Bean Risotto & Three Suave Soaves

10 Jun 2009 10:27:36 PDT

Written by Fredric Koeppel
What do you do when fava beans are in season? (And we are getting to the end of the season for fresh favas.) Well, in our house you make fava risotto, which LL did Sunday night, from a recipe found in Chez Panisse Vegetables by Alice Waters (HarperCollins, 1996), which also uses green peas and [......

Original story at Bigger Than Your Head .

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Top 10 favorite cookbooks that are nutritious and delicious

04 Jun 2009 13:01:19 PDT

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. ...

Original story at Examiner.com .

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Cookbook Review: You've Got Recipes

03 Jun 2009 11:08:23 PDT

FL Praise (and quibbles): Alice Waters, Jacques Pepin and Wolfgang Puck give the book ringing endorsements. The cover is laminated so it stays clean. Why we think you'll like it: The charming story is based on three food-loving creatures: Henry and Cleo ...

Original story at Sun-Sentinel.com .

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Cookbook targets today's culinary-savvy children

10 May 2009 17:55:04 PDT

CA Q: However, I see you have glowing endorsements from the likes of Alice Waters, Jacques Pepin and Wolfgang Puck. A: They are chefs who are parents and grandparents. They know that children are much more sophisticated than from years past. ...

Original story at Modesto Bee .

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Fad Diets Dying Out in 2009

06 Jan 2009 10:00:00 PST

Written by Max Shrem
In Sunday's Pittsburgh Tribune Review, dietitian Betsy Klein states that fad diets, such as low-carb regimens, seem to be disappearing. She explains that they are declining because people are less obsessed with weight-loss and more concerned with what they're actually consuming. Thi...

Original story at Slashfood .

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Alice Waters news and blogs - November 09, 2009

09 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Alice Waters news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• A Versatile Sauvignon Blanc -- by Fredric Koeppel from Bigger Than Your Head
• Four Summer Dishes, Four Summer Wines -- by Fredric Koeppel from Bigger Than Your Head
• Waylon Lewis: My interview with Michael Pollan re: how to ... -- from AlterNet
• Strawberries Kitchen-Primed -- from Victorville Daily Press
• Community Supported Agriculture resources -- from Kansas City Star
• House-made WHAT? -- from Reuters Blogs
• Alice Waters -- from Google Video - -site:youtube.com "Alice Waters" "Chez Panisse" OR "Slow Food" OR "Edible Schoolyard" OR chef OR Berkeley OR Gourmets OR "Paul Bertolli" OR "California Cuisine" OR "Chez Panisse Foundation" OR Fanny OR "Chez Panisse Cooking" OR ingredients OR "James Beard" OR "locally grown" OR Montessori OR "Awards and honors" OR "American Academy of Arts and Sciences" OR organic OR chefs OR "Cuisine et Vins de France" OR "Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe" OR "Interesting Facts" OR "Board memberships" OR "California Hall of Fame" OR Cafe OR "King Middle School" OR "French Culinary Institute" OR cuisine OR "dining commons" OR "West Berkeley" OR "28 April" OR "family table"
• Alice Waters' Crusade For Better Food -- from CBS News
• Mediavore: Name Your Pandemic -- from MenuPages San Francisco Blog
• Cook's Corner: Everything looks like a burger -- from Traverse City Record Eagle

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Editorial: A truly notable class for the Hall

18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PST

New California Hall of Famers introduced Monday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger include, from left, Dave Brubeck, Quincy Jones, Jack LaLanne, Schwarzenegger, Jane Fonda and Alice Waters. An eclectic group, with little in common, perhaps, except that all are Californians, all have made...

Original story at Sacramento Bee .

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Opinion: A good cookbook can satisfy any food lover on your list

17 Dec 2008 00:03:52 PST

Winston-Salem Journal WA - Dec 17, 2008 Alice Waters, Alice Medrich, Anne Willan, Dorie Greenspan, Marcella Hazan, Julia Child, MFK Fisher – the list is a who's who culinary professionals and ... He's Not Shy: Restaurant owner's book is outrageous and oddly ... Winston-Salem Journal

Original story at The Spokesman Review .

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12 inducted into California Hall of Fame

16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PST

Jane Fonda was one of 12 people inducted to the California Hall of Fame on Monday. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and first lady Maria Shriver awarded the 12 newest inductees the Spirit of California medal at the California Museum of History, Women & the Arts in downtown Sacramento.

Original story at Sacramento Bee .

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Recipe: Bread Baby: Sold.

18 Nov 2008 15:16:45 PST

Written by Jesse
Adapted from Chez Panisse Vegetables by Alice Waters 1 small heads of cabbage, sliced finely into strips 6 green onions, whites only, sliced finely into circles 1/6 cup white onion, sliced into fine strips ...

Original story at Bread Baby .

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Recipe: The Book Bench: Online Only: The New Yorker

17 Nov 2008 12:00:29 PST

I had once served a variation of this dressing, which I found in the pages of Alice Waters’s classic cookbook “Vegetables.” Waters’s is admittedly different from the original Green Goddess recipe: “Our version,” she explains, ...

Original story at New Yorker .

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Film Review: Food Fight : TreeHugger

03 Nov 2008 06:25:21 PST

There is a telling clip of a young Alice Waters in the early days of Chez Panisse sitting by the edge of her garden and saying in a voice edged with panic "I can't believe I have to make salad for 300 people out of this little garden". ...

Original story at Treehugger .

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How To: Learn About the Food and Works of Alice Waters

01 Oct 2008 03:41:25 PDT

Chef Alice Waters pursued farm fresh organic food and helped improve school lunches by teaching children and school staff how to grow and use fresh vegetables. Follow her journey through a special showing and discussion of the PBS video ...

Original story at Pima County Public Library .

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Recipe: “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”

07 Sep 2008 20:12:44 PDT

Written by Melissa
Recipe from The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters. Ingredients. 2/3 cup nuts (I used walnuts); 1 1/4 cups flour; 6 tablespoons brown sugar; 1 1/2 tablespoons granulated sugar; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon ...

Original story at melissamckelvey.com .

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How To: Alice Waters' Perfect Omelet

10 Jul 2008 11:53:15 PDT

Food legend Alice Waters explains how to make a Chez Panisse-style omelet. fr.truveo.com

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Recipe: Hungry hungry hipster - GQ

08 May 2008 11:16:14 PDT

Hungry hungry hipster - Alice Waters, godmother of all things organic, is interviewed here, and Mario Batali contributes several haikus and a recipe. For the lower-minded, ...

Original story at GQ .

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Opinion: Alice Waters's onion tart

24 Feb 2008 09:37:00 PST

Written by Leland
The onion tart recipe in Alice Waters’s beautiful new book is an improvement on my usual custardy recipe. Instead of dulling the flavor of the onions with eggs and cream, it just uses a truckload of onions, which are juicy enough to stand alone. A piece of this tart is as satisfying as a great sl...

Original story at technically.us .

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Review Week: Simply the Best Tart Ever!

13 Jan 2008 11:57:11 PST

Written by breadchick
I have to admit to not knowing who Alice Waters was until I was on a business trip in San Francisco a few years ago. My client, knowing I was a budding foodie, took me to Chez Panisse for dinner and it was one of the most memorable ...

Original story at breadchick.com .

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REVIEW: Best Food Book Gifts

02 Dec 2007 07:10:06 PST

Written by Nibble Editors
For food history, Alice Waters & Chez Panisse, Moveable Feasts, a book on the history of food from farm to table that is a real page-turner, and the snarky The Food Snob’s Dictionary, a good stocking stuffer. There are many more, ...

Original story at THE NIBBLE .

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Recipe: Elissa Altman: Beyond Alice's Restaurant

07 Oct 2007 15:06:38 PDT

Written by Elissa Altman
My first experience with Alice Waters, the founder of the ground-breaking Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, took place back in 1987; I was the cookbook buyer at the original Dean & Deluca in Manhattan, and one day, the door was flung ...

Original story at Huffington Post .

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Book Review: Bittersweet - A Sweet, Seductive Way to Spend an Evening Alice Medrich

29 Jul 2007 05:46:12 PDT

Written by Melissa Lion
The recipes in Alice Medrich's award-winning Bittersweet: A Sweet, Seductive Way to Spend an Evening range from savory to sweet and all spotlight fine chocolate, now more that ever available in local supermarkets. Medrich’s essays between the recipes are a delight and more instructio...

Original story at Blogcritics .

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San Francisco's Top Lady Chefs

23 May 2007 11:40:47 PDT

Alice Waters @ Chez Panisse. Alice Waters is one of the most high-profile females in American cooking. After Julia Child, she's the woman a sizable number of chefs say inspired them. Waters's focus on farm-fresh vegetables and organic meats caused a sea change in the way Americans eat and ma...

Original story at Gridskipper .

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San Francisco: Top Picks: San Francisco Culinary Highlights

17 May 2007 15:00:09 PDT

French Laundry: Thomas Keller nabbed three coveted Michelin stars for his Napa restaurant, and he's now a major culinary figure across the country. The SF Chronicle's Michael Bauer claims him for San Fran because of those shiny restaurant stars.

Original story at Gridskipper .

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Recipe: The Athlete Gourmet - It’s All About Carbs!

26 Feb 2007 22:00:25 PST

Written by Editor
A recent favorite was a recipe from Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse Vegetables Cookbook (Not where one might normally expect to find an athlete’s recipe, is it?) The recipe is quite simple and absolutely delicious! ...

Original story at Well Fed Network .

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Living Large at a Big Apple Big Easy Party

13 Oct 2006 12:14:26 PDT

At one serving station, Alice Waters seemed to ponder the nature of the food — thick veal cutlets slowly sautéed in butter, ... R&B legend Allen Toussaint, standing with 5 Ninth chef Zak Pelaccio, talked about rebuilding New Orleans. ...

Original story at New York Magazine .

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