WASHINGTON--Uber-chef Alice Waters says "I never voted again" after her great friend, journalist-activist Bob Scheer, lost his 1966 anti-Vietnam primary challenge to the Democratic establishment's congressman. The man whose campaign Waters ran from her Bay Area apartment, helped spawn a movement to end the war.
She channeled her own considerable zeal into Chez Panisse, the world-class Berkley restaurant she built by championing local/organic/seasonal/sustainable food. In later years, she pushed for home and schoolyard gardens, along with a national crash course in...
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