Alice Waters News

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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I love food. I love to feed people, to talk about food, write about food, eat food.

Northern California breeds food pioneers: M. F. K. Fisher, Alice Waters , Alfred Peet, for starters.

'Eating' by Jason Epstein; 'Far Flung and Well Fed' by R.W. Apple; and 'Appetite City' by William Grimes How Chez Panisse began When Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley in 1971, she wasn't trying to start a food revolution.

Keller & Keller Photography / Stockfood Roast chicken is a tricky task, but master the art of cooking a piece of whole poultry inside and out and your everyone near your kitchen will thank you for the aroma.

Anthony Bourdain and David Chang , chef of Momofuku. Bay Area be proud! We're the whipping boys of New York City chefs! First up, Alice Waters.

David Chang's appearance on Jimmy Fallon last night was disappointingly brief, but his latest interview doesn't disappoint.

Tony Geraci, food service director for Baltimore Unified School District, is an emerging champion of healthy school food, along with Alice Waters, Anne Cooper and Michelle Obama--and, as with them, the press has hungrily followed Geraci since he moved from New Hampshire to Baltimore last year to take over food service for the public school system ...

"Food and Hunger: Eating in America" was the topic of a panel discussion presented by the Black Mountain Institute last week at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

What happens when you give two New York City celebrity chefs an audience? They insult the Bay Area.

When filmmaker Robert Bates sees his youngest daughter, 4 1/2, out in the garden, plucking off a strawberry or nibbling a string bean she helped grow, he experiences joy and a jolt of hope.

Christopher Kimball has been quite a font of opinion lately, between writing that the Internet and its broccoli casserole recipes killed Gourmet , challenging " target="_blank">challenging the online community to a cook-off, and proclaiming that there is a wrong way and a right way to cook.

Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Go ask Alice: Eater spotted a from-across-the-pond profile of Alice Waters from Elfreda Pownall at Telegraph.co.uk . Of course, "Elfreda Pownall" is one of those Anglo-queeny drag tags, like Dame Edna Everage or Susan Boyle .

A while back, we noted that New York chefs didn't get all that much play in Phaidon's forthcoming book, Coco: 10 World Leading Masters Choose 100 Contemporary Chefs , wherein, as the new subtitle states, the publishing house asked chefs like Ferran Adria, Mario Batali, Alain Ducasse, Fergus Henderson, Alice Waters, and others to name their favorite ...

SF decides to sides with chefs with be-figged plates, not the Momofuku chef. San Francisco chefs are pissed.

A page from Restaurant Michael Mina's list. Go to Chez Panisse this week, and the figs will come from Cannard Farms in Sonoma while the black cod hails from Bolinas.