Alice Waters News

Ask children where food comes from, and some might say "the grocery store." George Watts Montessori Magnet School in Durham is working to change that perception.

"We have to change the way that we eat." That was a little more than seven years ago, not long after she had left her influential position as restaurant critic for The New York Times for the equally influential job as editor of Gourmet magazine.

A new book, 'Coco', asks the world's 10 most influential chefs to name the most exciting talents working today.

Wow, what a week of TC. Like I said before, it came down to fine-dining skills to make it into the Top 4. This must have been a tough week to leave for Eli.

What is brining a turkey? Why is it done? How is it done? Thanks. Ed, Wynnewood, Pa.

Look how stoked these Berkeley kids are on their badass school garden program- now where is SF's? As San Francisco public schools struggle to keep their salad bars stocked with a few local and organic options, Berkeley kids are benefiting from their towna s legendary reputation for sustainable grubbing.

We're beginning to believe that every culinary happening on the planet has a Bay Area connection.

Nov. 16, 2009 - The 'green' movement in San Francisco is hardly a 21st Century phenomena that's new or trendy.

Gone are the days of mystery meat lunches. School cafeterias are on their way to getting healthier, fresher and more nutritious due to a growing movement that is uprooting the way school children eat.

"Ah! Platter " said Enrico , diminutive table twirling owner of Ristorante Posticino in Sea Point, spying my review copy of The Food & Wine Pairing Guide by Katinka van Niekerk and Brian Burke yesterday.

The shrinking daylight hours and the chillier weather are reason enough to eat at home.

A San Ramon fine-dining establishment that closed last year may be replaced with ... another fine dining establishment.

Chefs like Jamie Oliver , Alice Waters , Dominique Valadier , and Christopher Kimball have begun to make a difference, but there is still so much more to be done to make sure that every child has access to healthy food for lunch in school.

Slow Food St. Louis and Welcome Books have joined together with Onesto Pizza and Trattoria to host "A Slow Taste of Tuscany," a dinner to celebrate the new book Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town by Douglas Gayeton.

Alice Waters dropped into Larchmont Charter School yesterday for lunch and a discussion about improving the eating culture at schools.

Maybe Michelle and Barack Obama were strong-armed into having an organic garden on the White House lawn by tough punks like Alice Waters, but Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack made his without any public opinion campaigns to twist his arm.

Food trends, be they as mundane as cupcakes or as significant as buying organic, can always be traced back to a person.

Roasted fingerling potato salad with watercress and horseradish dressing from chef Jeff Crumpis' new book, Earth to Table Like so many of us, Canadian chef Jeff Crump had to leave home to find what made it special all along.

PROSELYTIZING about poor eating habits that cause the dangerous paunches of childhood obesity - and about rising unhealthy adult fatness as well - from the bully pulpit that is the White House has a checkered history.

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