Alice Waters

Worth a Read: Maira Kalman's "Back to the Land"

source: blogs.seattleweekly.com

There are a few clichéd, cringe-worthy moments (she goes to California, Alice Waters cooks her the most astonishing egg, Chez Panisse, Michael Pollan, blah, ...

Published Mon, Nov 30

Let Our Children Lead the Way to a Healthier Future - Huffington Post

source: Huffington Post

Let Our Children Lead the Way to a Healthier Future blog) However, despite the success of school lunch pioneers like Alice Waters and her Edible Schoolyard initiative, Slow Food USA's Time for Lunch campaign, ...

Published Tue, Nov 17

FoodWire: "A Slow Taste of Tuscany" Dinner at Onesto Wednesday 11.18

source: blogs.riverfronttimes.com

The book, which includes introductions from Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini and noted American chef and Slow Food proponent Alice Waters, celebrates the ...

Published Wed, Nov 11

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

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

Forgotten Fruits: The Stories Behind Britain's Traditional Fruit ...

source: Financial Times

 UK There seems to be something innocent about Burbank's lifelong work of plant breeding, summed up by the chef and Slow Food guru Alice Waters: “There's nothing wrong with improving plants. Luther Burbank ... did that. But he didn't violate nature doing ...

Published Fri, Jun 12

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