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"Slow: Life In A Tuscan Town" (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Lena Tabori | Posted 11.18.2009 | Books

Read More: Photos, Pbs, Slow Food, Welcome Books, Books, Chez Panisse, Douglas Gayeton, Italy, Alice Waters, Zagat, Tuscany, Books News

I was telling a producer at PBS the other day about "Slow: Life In a Tuscan Town" by Douglas Gayeton (which I am right smack in the middle of publishi...

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What Do You Eat When No One is Watching?

Elissa Altman | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Alice Waters, Judith Jones, Deborah Madison, Patrick McFarlin, What We Eat When We Eat Alone, Eating Alone, Health, Living News
Elissa Altman

My father believed that it was his right to cook himself a lovely meal even if he was alone, and my mother thought that it was indicative of some visceral weirdness. Seventeen years later, they divorced.

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Meatless Monday: Meatless Meals Make The Freshman 15 Old School

Ellen Kanner | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Freshman 15, Neal Barnard, Alice Waters, Ann Cooper, goveg.com, Food, Meatless Mondays, Green News
Ellen Kanner

Welcome, college freshmen. Your education begins today. What you learn in class matters of course, but the great thing about being a freshman is wha...

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The Nation's Special Issue "Food for All"

Ben Wyskida | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, Alice Waters, The Nation, Organic Food, Food Politics, Walter Mosley, Anna Lappe, Local Food, Michael Pollan, Green News
Ben Wyskida

There is a much broader movement out there towards food democracy: the effort to ensure healthy food for everyone.

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Want to Teach Democracy? Improve School Lunches

Alice Waters | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, Community Gardens, Alice Waters, The Nation, Morgan Spurlock, Urban Farming, School Lunches, Food Politics, Green News
Alice Waters

What's missing from the national conversation about school lunch reform is the opportunity to use food to teach values that are central to democracy.

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Don't Hate Whole Foods Because of Health Care...

Aemilia Scott | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Aemilia Scott, Public Option, Green, Alice Waters, John Mackey, Sustainable, Farmer's Market, Hipster, Organic Food, Health, Environment, Socialism, Whole Foods, Local Farmers, Whole Foods CEO, Green News
Aemilia Scott

I've got news for you: Whole Foods is lame. It's been lame for a long while now.

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Michael Pollan, Julie & Julia, Top Chef -- and Your Health

Waylon Lewis | Posted 09.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Food Network, Julia Child, Alice Waters, Movie, Walk the Talk Show, Cook, elephantjournal.com, Slow Food, Top Chef, Michael Pollan, Cooking, Health, Hosea Rosenberg, Foodie, Green Talk Show, Food, Waylon Lewis, Elephant Journal, Living News
Waylon Lewis

I do like to eat, but (as an uncivilized bachelor) I don't know how to cook or much care about cooking. That is, until Michael Pollan, told about the key to saving the food situation.

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Aquatic Accommodations

Michael Markarian | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dolphins, Marine Life, San Diego, The Cove, Steller Sea Lions, Sea Otters, Seals, Shark Finning, Turtles, Alice Waters, Seals La Jolla Beach, Whales, Right Whales, Politics News
Michael Markarian

It's been a good week for marine life, and this week's advances follow a steady drumbeat of recent victories for ocean creatures.

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Meatless Monday: Reforming School Lunches

Ellen Kanner | Posted 08.27.2009 | Green

Read More: National School Lunch Program, Slow Food Usa, Child Nutrition Act, Alice Waters, Dr. Arthur Agatston, South Beach Diet, Time for Lunch, Food Politics, Food, Green News
Ellen Kanner

Remember school lunch? Mystery meatloaf? Slimy spaghetti? Vegetables so gray and overcooked it was impossible to imagine they started life fresh? ...

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See Food, Inc for Free (Thanks, Chipotle)

Waylon Lewis | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Farmers' Market, Elephant, Michael Pollan, Documentary, Chipotle, Alice Waters, Waylon Lewis, Elephant Journal, Food Inc., Green News
Waylon Lewis

The film, inspires me -- a lazy non-cooking nacho-loving but environmentally-concerned bachelor -- to start getting active with food issues and learn to cook.

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My Interview with Michael Pollan

Waylon Lewis | Posted 07.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Farmers' Market, Video, Michael Pollan Interview, Michael Pollan, Green, Food, Foodie, Alice Waters, Eco, Waylon Lewis, Organic, Gmo, Monsanto, Green News
Waylon Lewis

Even if your idea of being a foodie is, like me, putting together some organic veggie nachos, you'll dig how eloquently, warmly and straightforwardly Michael Pollan communicates to the masses.

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You Are What You Eat: Food Inc. Brings Food to the Forefront

Tracy Hepler | Posted 07.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Matters, Gmos, You Are What You Eat, Food Inc., Factory Farms, Fast Food Nation, Alice Waters, Fast Food Industry, Monsanto, Green News
Tracy Hepler

Looking at today's society it seems clear that when it comes to our food and nutrition, our priorities are out of whack. We need a wake up call and Food, Inc. is just that.

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Anthony Bourdain, Alice Waters, Duff Goldman -- Clash of the Food Titans

Abe Silk | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Anthony Bourdain, No Reservations, Duff Goldman, Alice Waters, CT Forum, The Connecticut Forum, Chez Panisse, Food, Green News
Abe Silk

The Connecticut Forum in Hartford was an informative, insightful and humorous panel discussion on food and food politics.

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A Locavore in Turnip Town: In Praise of Veggie Traders

Elissa Altman | Posted 05.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Farmer's Markets, David Tanis, Turnips, Chez Panisse, Faith Middleton, Locavore, Alice Waters, Carole Peck, Paul Bertolli, Jeremiah Tower, Veggie Trader, New England, Green News
Elissa Altman

if Freecycle works (and it does), and Craigslist has changed the way communities do business, why can't vegetable growers and food lovers take take advantage of this same business model?

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Kill Your Microwave, I Dare Ya

Jerusha Klemperer | Posted 04.26.2009 | Style

Read More: Slow Food, Alice Waters, 60 Minutes, Cooking, Microwaves, Style News
Jerusha Klemperer

People were so excited about ye olde heating box, they were buying cookbooks about how you could cook everything in the microwave. Ever tried to cook a chicken in a microwave? Blech.

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What Alice Waters is Missing

Isabel Cowles | Posted 04.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Sustainable Food Prices, White-House-Victory-Garden, Alice Waters, Cost of Local Food, Local Food, White House Vegetable Garden, Cost of Sustainable Food, Green News
Isabel Cowles

Waters needs to get down and dirty on the economic issues tied to her edible ethos. At present, the food Waters espouses is not sustainable to the American wallet.

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The Michelle Touch That Floored A Kitchen Garden Advocate

The Atlantic Food Channel | Posted 04.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Michelle Obama, Alice Waters, White House Kitchen Garden, Eating Matters, Victory Garden, Green News

Part of the reason she had "spent all day long in this exhilarated place," she told me, was seeing the children in the pictures. The other cause she w...

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Waters-gate? Alice Waters' Controversial Role in the Obama Vegetable Garden

Alison Stein Wellner | Posted 04.20.2009 | Style

Read More: Media Criticism, New York Times, Alice Waters, Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Gourmet Magazine, Victory Garden, Style News
Alison Stein Wellner

Alice Waters is a polarizing figure; in foodie circles, people seem to either revere her or think she's a ruthless hack. And she's definitely been embroiled in the eating politics of the Obamas.

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Agribiz Biostitute Declares Fresh Healthy Food A Menace

Kerry Trueman | Posted 04.01.2009 | Green

Read More: National School Lunch Program, Sustainable Agriculture, School Food, Organic Farming, Alice Waters, Henry I. MIller, Industrial Agriculture, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Welcome to another steaming poo-poo platter of Agribriz propaganda served up by a biostitute whose foundation is fossil-fueled by Archer Daniels Midland, Exxon, Ford, GM and Chrysler.

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Top Chefs Pushing Obama To Improve Food Policy

AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 02.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Food, Food Policy, Alice Waters, Barack Obama, Agriculture, Rick Bayless, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Visiting one of his favorite Chicago restaurants in November, Barack Obama was asked by an excited waitress if he wanted the restau...

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David Chang: the Porcine Prince Respects the Circle of Life and Worries about the Future of Food

Louise McCready | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Esquire Magazine, Chefs, Ferran Adria, Big Tobacco, Small Business, Andre Soltner, Cooking, Ruth Reichl, Restaurants, Food, Alice Waters, Momofuku, Wylie Dufresne, Sustainable Farming, New York, David Chang, Green News
Louise McCready

David Chang: I'm not an economist, so I'm not the one to say anything about this, but it's going to be very difficult to feed everybody when America doesn't produce food anymore

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My Foodie Idol Anthony Bourdain Gives My Green Foodie Idol Alice Waters the Foie Gras Bird

Waylon Lewis | Posted 02.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Farmers' Market, Slow Food, Whole Foods, Local Food, Foie Gras, Green, Environment, Alice Waters, Foodie, Poor, Eco, Anthony Bourdain, Rich, Victory Garden, Video, Green News
Waylon Lewis

Don't denigrate our Alice Waters, Tony -- she is the real thing.

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Alice Waters Goes To Washington To Cook Dinner

Annie Groer | Posted 02.14.2009 | Style

Read More: Inauguration Style, Food, Alice Waters, Alice Waters Washington, Alice Waters Phillips Collection, Alice Waters Inauguration Dinner Menu, Alice Waters Inauguration, Alice Waters Inauguration Dinner, Style News
Annie Groer

Aided by a group of local culinistas, Waters hopes the Monday night menu will feature Chesapeake Bay oysters and crostini; rockfish soup and a confit of saffron-spiked tomatoes, though if the fish don't look so great, she'll shift to winter vegetables; shoulder of local lamb with salsa verde, and an apple tart.

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Uber-Chef Alice Waters Comes To Washington: Inauguration Week's Best Dinner

Huffington Post | Annie Groer | Posted 02.13.2009 | Home

Read More: Alice Waters, Alice Waters Obama, Inauguration Day, Obama Inauguration, Alice Waters Inauguration, Chez Panisse, Home News

WASHINGTON--Uber-chef Alice Waters says "I never voted again" after her great friend, journalist-activist Bob Scheer, lost his 1966 anti-Vietnam prima...

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Heating Up the White House Kitchen

Tim Zagat | Posted 02.07.2009 | Style

Read More: Culinary, White House Food, Daniel Boulud, Sustainable Food, Martha Stewart, Danny Meyer, Americana, Obama Inauguration, Ralph Brennan, Alice Waters, Inauguration Food, Barack Obama Inauguration, Tom Colicchio, David Chang, White House Kitchen, Inaugural Food, Chefs, Lydia Bastianich, Michael Pollan, David Bouley, Rich Melman, Obama Food, Cooking, Inauguration, Sheila Lukins, Sustainability, Food, Inaugural Dinner, Style News
Tim Zagat

At a time when many Americans are overweight, the trim First Family should serve as models of healthy eating balanced with regular exercise.

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