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Scene @ Capotorto & Hazen Book Parties
Original at mediabistro.com
• Thu, Oct 9
Speaking of memoirs and book parties, the French Culinary Institute hosted a bash honoring Marcella Hazen for the publication of Amarcord. Guests there included FCI founder Dorothy Hamilton, playwright Larry Kramer, and chef Alice Waters.
NYC food festival debuts in stomach-churning times
Original at Reuters
• Wed, Oct 8
India - Attendees can rub elbows with famous American and foreign chefs like Alice Waters and Ferran Adria as well as television personalities such as Rachael Ray ...
Theo Randall Interview | Chef Theo Randall at Pizza Express
Original at Dine Online
• Wed, Oct 8
By Foodie Obviously Rose and Ruthie from the River Café, Alice Waters (a very influential American Chef who Randall spent a year working with) from Chez Panisse, chefs that I have met, restaurants I have been to. ...
Food Stuff
Original at Detroit Metro Times
• Tue, Oct 7
MI - He spends six months a year cooking at Alice Waters' legendary Chez Panisse. The rest of his time is spent in Paris cooking for friends. ...
Standing the heat
Original at thenational.ae
• Tue, Oct 7
United Arab Emirates - Meanwhile, in America, Alice Waters, who founded the much-praised Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California, in 1971, was one of the earliest and most vocal ...
Activists visit Lubbock to promote organic farming - The Daily Toreador
Original at The Daily Toreador
• Mon, Oct 6
Activists visit Lubbock to promote organic farming subscription), TX - Simon said he came up with the idea for the WhoFarm project after hearing Alice Waters' acceptance speech for the 2008 Global Environmental Citizen Award, ...
Cost Plus World Market Celebrates Fifty Years of Fabulous Finds
Original at MarketWatch
• Mon, Oct 6
- In the past, Cost Plus World Market has hosted local Bay Area chefs at its stores, from Martin Yan to most recently, Alice Waters of Chez Panisse in ...
Star Fruit Giver
Original at Well Fed Network
• Sun, Oct 5
By Editor Devouring my piece of art, making my keyboard more sticky with each juicy bite, I leave with these words — as always — I continue to encourage everyone to delve into your communities local ingredients. Alice Waters puts it best in the ...
Chocolatier Blue dazzles taste buds in Berkeley
Original at East Bay Business Times
• Fri, Oct 3
CA - On the advice of a friend, he took a look at Berkeley, the birthplace of California Cuisine thanks to Alice Waters of Chez Panisse fame. ...
Slow Food for All?
Original at East Bay Express
• Tue, Sep 30
CA - Elsewhere, others listened to lectures by prominent food leaders like Michael Pollan and Alice Waters on topics ranging from the world food crisis to the ...
'Local': the new 'fresh'
Original at Creative Loafing
• Tue, Sep 30
NC - California chef/restaurateur, writer, and localvore advocate Alice Waters says in the Chez Panisse sustainability statement: "A good kitchen respects its ...
US: Harvest season for best grapes short but sweet
Original at FreshPlaza
• Mon, Sep 29
Netherlands - Grapes pair nicely with fine cheeses, and are also delicious eaten alone. This unusual treatment for grapes is suggested by Alice Waters in "Chez Panisse ...
Alice Waters - The Art of Simple Food
Original at Examiner.com
• Sun, Sep 28
- For some sound advice on how to transform ordinary vegetables into delicious side dishes, I turned to Alice Waters, founder of Chez Panisse in Berkley, CA. ...
Slow down, already
Original at Sacramento News & Review
• Fri, Sep 26
Sacramento News & Review, CA - Sep 26, 2008 What founder Alice Waters and her Slow Food allies need to do is tell the nation’s fast foodies that slow food can be simple and affordable, for if the poor ...
Innocence and Experience
Original at Atlantic Online
• Tue, Sep 9
- 27 Alice Waters opens a restaurant called Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California, 1971. 28 Thomas Lanier Williams shuttles from New Orleans to California, ...
October 2008 Cookbook of the Month: Your Suggestions Needed
Original at CHOW: The Grinder
• Tue, Sep 9
I humbly suggest: ART OF SIMPLE FOOD, Alice Waters (this book was from Oct 2007, which will make it a year old in Oct--is it too new?) ART OF SOUTH AMERICAN COOKING, Felipe Rojas-lombar Thank you MMRuth! ~TDQ.
The 2008 Bon Appetit Magazine Awards Celebrate Today's Best Chefs ... - PR-CANADA.net
Original at pr-canada.net
• Sun, Sep 7
The 2008 Bon Appetit Magazine Awards Celebrate Today's Best Chefs ... PR-CANADA.net (press release), Montenegro - Their work has drawn notice from exacting chefs and many, like Alice Waters (who ordered custom plates for Chez Panisse), have come calling. ...
Schwarzenegger could soon face recall
Original at San Francisco Chronicle
• Sun, Sep 7
USA - The movement is a blend of environmental consciousness, dieting and a dash of Oprah, with Alice Waters leading the charge. "It plays very well in Pacific ...
The 2008 Bon Appetit Magazine Awards Celebrate Today's Best Chefs ...
Original at MarketWatch
• Fri, Sep 5
- Their work has drawn notice from exacting chefs and many, like Alice Waters (who ordered custom plates for Chez Panisse), have come calling. ...
Gail Simmons Recommends an All-Cheeseburger Fashion Week Diet
Original at New York Magazine
• Fri, Sep 5
USA - I'd love to have Alice Waters on the show. Thomas Keller. I would love to. There's been talk of it. It's just a logistics thing. What makes a good Top Chef ...
Slow Food menu draws crowds of tasters
Original at San Francisco Chronicle
• Sun, Aug 31
SanFranciscoSentinel.com USA - For Alice Waters, a Berkeley restaurateur and one of the key organizers of the festival, it's not about reinventing the wheel; it's about going back to ... The fast track guide to Slow Food San Francisco Chronicle all 8 news articles
Slow Food Taste Pavilions: Preview Night
Original at San Francisco Chronicle
• Fri, Aug 29
USA - Aug 29, 2008 Heavy hitters from the food world included Michael Pollan, Marion Nestle, Peggy Knickerbocker and of course Alice Waters, one of Slow Food Nation's chief ...
Slow Food Nation: Let the delicious revolution begin!
Original at The Ethicurean
• Fri, Aug 29
By Bonnie P. Slow Food Nation, the three-day festival that’s been hyped as the “Woodstock of the food movement” and the “first continental culinary congress,” has begun and is full swing. It encompasses a thriving Victory Garden in front of San Francisco’s City Hall (pictured); a Food for Thought le...
It's not quite saber rattling, but it sure is growling:
Original at San Francisco Chronicle
• Wed, Aug 27
USA - Organizers of Slow Food Nation have decided to show it as part of the Best of festival. Alice Waters and Bologna jury chief Dieter Kosslick, ...
Slow Food Nation celebrates the good, clean and fair
Original at Point Reyes Light
• Fri, Aug 15
CA - On Saturday afternoon of this week, a lunch hosted by celebrity chef and Slow Food champion Alice Waters was held on Peter Worsley’s farm in Point Reyes ...
Chef cooks up dishes with a difference
Original at St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• Thu, Aug 14
United States - Were you influenced by Alice Waters, founder of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif.? Very much so. If I could throw a garden right here and farm from it, ...
Carol Pecks Good News cafe in Woodbury, CT ..anyone been there lately?
Original at CHOW: The Grinder
• Wed, Aug 13
Carole is know as the Alice Waters of the East Coast; she uses high quality ingredients, preferably local, creatively, with delicious results. Atmosphere is informal, with placemats on the tables, good crusty country sourdough bread and ...
Wood-Fired
Original at New York Times
• Fri, Aug 8
United States - But the food has an elegance that only the best ingredients, simply prepared, can carry off. If this is gas-station cuisine, Alice Waters has won. ...
Recent good eats SF and East Bay
Original at CHOW: The Grinder
• Tue, Aug 5
Like many of those places, the chef-owner worked at Chez Panisse for a long time. Some interviewer once asked Alice Waters to share one of her "secrets," and she said something like, we use more salt than some people would think proper.
Cooking Light Features Chicago Market Pioneer
Original at Gapers Block
• Wed, Jul 30
IL - Today, the market is "the best sustainable market in the country," according to the Alice Waters. The story is a good read and includes fun recipes from ...
Alice Waters in conversation with SF Mayor Gavin Newsom
Original at The Ethicurean
• Thu, Jun 5
By Marc R. aka Mental Masala ShareThis San Francisco's Mayor Gavin Newson sat down with chef, food activist, and Slow Food International vice president Alice Waterso to help publicize Slow Food Nation, a giant celebration of food, farming, and culture that is coming to San Francisco on Labor Day weekend in late Au...
Do French Kids Get Fat?
Original at Super Chef
• Sun, May 18
By noreply@blogger.com (Juliette Rossant) Would American students eat Didier's menus? Super Chef is not suggesting chefs quit their restaurant jobs for low paying cafeteria work. But American chefs need to find a way to influence the kind and quality of food served in the nation's school cafeterias. A few chefs have tried to make a d...
Opinion: Alice Waters's onion tart
Original at technically.us
• Sun, Feb 24
By Leland The onion tart recipe in Alice Waters’s beautiful new book is an improvement on my usual custardy recipe. Instead of dulling the flavor of the onions with eggs and cream, it just uses a truckload of onions, which are juicy enough to stand alone. A piece of this tart is as satisfying as a great sl...
Susan Sawyers: Dish from Davos, Day 1
Original at Huffington Post
• Wed, Jan 23
By Susan Sawyers with Yo-Yo Ma, HRH Princess Lolowah Al Faisal Al Saud and Food and "A Whole New World" with Alice Waters of Chez Panisse fame, author Michael Pollan and Peter Sellars. Ms. Waters was hard at work Tuesday and Wednesday preparing the ...
Nestle Loses Sales as Alice Waters Bans Bottled Water (Update2) - Bloomberg
Original at Bloomberg
• Tue, Jan 22
Nestle Loses Sales as Alice Waters Bans Bottled Water (Update2) - Jan 22, 2008 22 (Bloomberg) -- Tap water is fine for Alice Waters, who stopped selling bottled stuff last year at her environmentally conscious Chez Panisse restaurant ...
Alice Waters Book-Signings
Original at San Jose Mercury News
• Wed, Nov 21
By Carolyn Jung Alice Waters, founder of Berkeley’s landmark Chez Panisse restaurant, will be doing two book-signings at Bay Area Cost Plus World Market stores. Unfortunately, there won’t be any in the South Bay, so foodie fans down here will just have ...
Getting to Know You
Original at CHOW: The Grinder
• Thu, Nov 15
By Joyce Slaton If you don’t know your Cantu from your Kato, or your Goldsmith from your Goldfarb, a good primer is the new book by online chef-worship magazine StarChefs, Chefs to Know. The subtitle is A Guide to Chefs for Chefs, and indeed, as Epi-Log points out, the book “includes some information that a...
More Water(s) please
Original at Louisville Courier-Journal
• Wed, Sep 19
By James Bruggers Those of you who may be going to the Healthy Foods conference sponsored by the Sierra Club, where famed chef Alice Waters is to speak, may want to copy and past the link below, and read an entertaining interview of Ms. ...
Metro Briefs - Louisville Courier-Journal
Original at Louisville Courier-Journal
• Mon, Aug 27
Metro Briefs KY - California chef and author Alice Waters will speak at the Healthy Foods, Local Farms Conference on Sept. 29 at Bellarmine University. ...
Alice in Kentuckyland
Original at Louisville Courier-Journal
• Wed, Aug 22
By James Bruggers 4) Peach leaf sherbet coupe with summer berries. Yum. The chef there, Alice Waters, is a national institution, having pioneered the use of local and organic food -- and seasonal food -- in restaurants. And she's coming to Louisville. ...
Book Review: Bittersweet - A Sweet, Seductive Way to Spend an Evening Alice Medrich
Original at Blogcritics
• Sun, Jul 29
By Melissa Lion The recipes in Alice Medrich's award-winning Bittersweet: A Sweet, Seductive Way to Spend an Evening range from savory to sweet and all spotlight fine chocolate, now more that ever available in local supermarkets. Medrich’s essays between the recipes are a delight and more instructio...
San Francisco's Top Lady Chefs
Original at Gridskipper
• Wed, May 23
Alice Waters @ Chez Panisse. Alice Waters is one of the most high-profile females in American cooking. After Julia Child, she's the woman a sizable number of chefs say inspired them. Waters's focus on farm-fresh vegetables and organic meats caused a sea change in the way Americans eat and ma...
San Francisco: Top Picks: San Francisco Culinary Highlights
Original at Gridskipper
• Thu, May 17
French Laundry: Thomas Keller nabbed three coveted Michelin stars for his Napa restaurant, and he's now a major culinary figure across the country. The SF Chronicle's Michael Bauer claims him for San Fran because of those shiny restaurant stars.
Japanese Master Chefs on Morimoto: Not A Japanese Restaurant
Original at Gridskipper
• Wed, Mar 7
Yesterday we had the chance to sit down with three of Japan's best known kaiseki masters: (from L to R) Kimio Nonaga, Motoi Kurisu, Masahiro Kurisu who were in town for the International Food Show at Javits. Sitting down with these guys is like sitting down with Mario Batali, Grant Achatz an...
Recipe: The Athlete Gourmet - It’s All About Carbs!
Original at Well Fed Network
• Mon, Feb 26
• 2 related articles
By Editor A recent favorite was a recipe from Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse Vegetables Cookbook (Not where one might normally expect to find an athlete’s recipe, is it?) The recipe is quite simple and absolutely delicious! ...
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From chemist to chef
Original at Scientist
• Sat, Dec 23
UK - Some topnotch chefs dismiss the technique, including Alice Waters of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., who prefers a hands-on intimacy with ingredients. ...
Piggy Self-Promoter: Jason Neroni?
Original at Gawker
• Wed, Dec 13
So that self-promoting chef who sent an e-mail around asking his friends to make him a Beard Foundation rising star? No one has coughed up the e-mail yet, but we have it on good authority that it's none other than Jason Neroni, of Brooklyn pig purveyor Porchetta (home of the pork margarita)....
A natural muckraker
Original at Sacramento Bee
• Sun, Nov 26
CA - Nov 26, 2006 Berkeley food diva Alice Waters says Pollan should run for president. And he showed up on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," where host Stephen Colbert ...
Jason Neroni: I Love Wylie, But ...
Original at New York Magazine
• Fri, Nov 3
The chef credits Alice Waters and Dan Hill for teaching him about ingredients, Floyd Cardoz for teaching him about "multidimensionality," and Alain Ducasse for teaching him to "slow down, combine all the elements, and create a cuisine ...
Living Large at a Big Apple Big Easy Party
Original at New York Magazine
• Fri, Oct 13
At one serving station, Alice Waters seemed to ponder the nature of the food — thick veal cutlets slowly sautéed in butter, ... R&B legend Allen Toussaint, standing with 5 Ninth chef Zak Pelaccio, talked about rebuilding New Orleans. ...