Alice Waters

California dreaming: If the food is fab, you must be in LA

source: Daily Mail - UK

 UK A few hours up the Pacific Coast Highway and you move towards San Francisco and Berkeley, home of Alice Waters and her restaurant, Chez Panisse. Waters is one of the pioneers of sustainable cooking, a champion of the local and seasonal. ...

Published Sat, Jun 13

These 'dames' know cooking

source: The Desert Sun

 CA Without Julia Child or Alice Waters we'd all still be eating the way we did in the '50s, and the male stars of the current food firmament would probably be in some other line of work. That's why Les Dames d'Escoffier has all of my respect. ...

Published Wed, Jun 10

The Side Dish: Bourdain Takes The Stage in Portland

source: Daily Blender

 OR On Alice Waters: “Mother of slow food, or Khmer Rouge?” On organic food: “When we fetishize these ingredients, we're moving away from the essence of cooking.” On vegans/vegetarians: “Just f**king rude [for not eating what I'm serving]… ...

Published Tue, Jun 2

Kamala Harris grew up idolizing lawyers

source: San Francisco Chronicle

  USA The other book, which is in stark contrast to that, is about the evolution of violence in American streets, called "Fist Stick Knife Gun." Q: How much time do you have to cook? A: My favorite recent cookbook is Alice Waters' "The Art of Simple Cooking. ...

Published Wed, May 13

Peel back the layers, you find Escoffier

source: Tampa Tribune

 FL By GREG and MICHELLE BAKER Before there were chefs like Thomas Keller, Daniel Boulud or Alice Waters, there was one chef whose name rang synonymous with classic French cooking: Auguste Escoffier. Born in a village just outside of Cannes in 1846, ...

Published Fri, May 8

The Santa Cruz Film Festival + Reviews

source: gtweekly.com

 CA In honor of a film on Alice Waters and the whole foods movement (Food Fight), a live demonstration of seasonal cooking will be offered by eco-chef, food justice activist and PBS host Bryant Terry at the Culinary Center of Santa Cruz. ...

Published Wed, May 6

TV chefs slammed for praising buckets o’protein

source: The Ethicurean

Greenberg sees red: Matthew Greenberg slams the “stomach-churning” Sandra Lee, of Food Network fame, for shilling for Kentucky Fried Chicken and takes aim at the Food Network, where “the actual act of cooking good food often seems an afterthought.” Asks Greenberg, “How in Alice Waters...

Published Wed, Apr 29

Chef Waters' vision becomes hot topic

source: Sun-Sentinel.com

BERKELEY, Calif. - I went to talk to a celebrity in San Francisco who inspires cultlike devotion for what she does with green cooking: Alice Waters, who has created her own mythical empire of healthy food with her cookbooks, edible gardens in public ...

Published Tue, Apr 28