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Rate Scene @ Capotorto & Hazen Book Parties

Original at mediabistro.com external link    Thu, Oct 9

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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.

Rate NYC food festival debuts in stomach-churning times

Original at Reuters external link    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 ...

Rate Theo Randall Interview | Chef Theo Randall at Pizza Express

Original at Dine Online external link    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. ...

Rate Food Stuff

Original at Detroit Metro Times external link    Tue, Oct 7

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 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. ...

Rate Standing the heat

Original at thenational.ae external link    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 ...

Rate Activists visit Lubbock to promote organic farming - The Daily Toreador

Original at The Daily Toreador external link    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, ...

Rate Cost Plus World Market Celebrates Fifty Years of Fabulous Finds

Original at MarketWatch external link    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 ...

Past Two Weeks

 

Rate Star Fruit Giver

Original at Well Fed Network external link    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 ...

Rate Chocolatier Blue dazzles taste buds in Berkeley

Original at East Bay Business Times external link    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. ...

Rate Slow Food for All?

Original at East Bay Express external link    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 ...

Rate 'Local': the new 'fresh'

Original at Creative Loafing external link    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 ...

Rate US: Harvest season for best grapes short but sweet

Original at FreshPlaza external link    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 ...

September of 2008

 

Rate Alice Waters - The Art of Simple Food

Original at Examiner.com external link    Sun, Sep 28

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 - 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. ...

Rate Slow down, already

Original at Sacramento News & Review external link    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 ...

Rate Innocence and Experience

Original at Atlantic Online external link    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, ...

Rate October 2008 Cookbook of the Month: Your Suggestions Needed

Original at CHOW: The Grinder external link    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.

Rate The 2008 Bon Appetit Magazine Awards Celebrate Today's Best Chefs ... - PR-CANADA.net

Original at pr-canada.net external link    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. ...

Rate Schwarzenegger could soon face recall

Original at San Francisco Chronicle external link    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 ...

Rate The 2008 Bon Appetit Magazine Awards Celebrate Today's Best Chefs ...

Original at MarketWatch external link    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. ...

Rate Gail Simmons Recommends an All-Cheeseburger Fashion Week Diet

Original at New York Magazine external link    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 ...

August of 2008

 

Rate Slow Food menu draws crowds of tasters

Original at San Francisco Chronicle external link    Sun, Aug 31

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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

Rate Slow Food Taste Pavilions: Preview Night

Original at San Francisco Chronicle external link    Fri, Aug 29

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  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 ...

Rate Slow Food Nation: Let the delicious revolution begin!

Original at The Ethicurean external link    Fri, Aug 29

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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...

Rate It's not quite saber rattling, but it sure is growling:

Original at San Francisco Chronicle external link    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, ...

Rate Slow Food Nation celebrates the good, clean and fair

Original at Point Reyes Light external link    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 ...

Rate Chef cooks up dishes with a difference

Original at St. Louis Post-Dispatch external link    Thu, Aug 14

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  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, ...

Rate Carol Pecks Good News cafe in Woodbury, CT ..anyone been there lately?

Original at CHOW: The Grinder external link    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 ...

Rate Wood-Fired

Original at New York Times external link    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. ...

Rate Recent good eats SF and East Bay

Original at CHOW: The Grinder external link    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.

Year 2008

 

Rate Cooking Light Features Chicago Market Pioneer

Original at Gapers Block external link    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 ...

Rate Alice Waters in conversation with SF Mayor Gavin Newsom

Original at The Ethicurean external link    Thu, Jun 5

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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...

Rate Do French Kids Get Fat?

Original at Super Chef external link    Sun, May 18

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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...

Rate Opinion: Alice Waters's onion tart

Original at technically.us external link    Sun, Feb 24

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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...

Rate Susan Sawyers: Dish from Davos, Day 1

Original at Huffington Post external link    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 ...

Rate Nestle Loses Sales as Alice Waters Bans Bottled Water (Update2) - Bloomberg

Original at Bloomberg external link    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 ...

Rate Alice Waters Book-Signings

Original at San Jose Mercury News external link    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 ...

Rate Getting to Know You

Original at CHOW: The Grinder external link    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...

Rate More Water(s) please

Original at Louisville Courier-Journal external link    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. ...

Rate Metro Briefs - Louisville Courier-Journal

Original at Louisville Courier-Journal external link    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. ...

Rate Alice in Kentuckyland

Original at Louisville Courier-Journal external link    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. ...

Rate Book Review: Bittersweet - A Sweet, Seductive Way to Spend an Evening Alice Medrich

Original at Blogcritics external link    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...

Rate San Francisco's Top Lady Chefs

Original at Gridskipper external link    Wed, May 23

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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...

Rate San Francisco: Top Picks: San Francisco Culinary Highlights

Original at Gridskipper external link    Thu, May 17

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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.

Rate Japanese Master Chefs on Morimoto: Not A Japanese Restaurant

Original at Gridskipper external link    Wed, Mar 7

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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...

Rate Recipe: The Athlete Gourmet - It’s All About Carbs!

Original at Well Fed Network external link    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! ...

Year 2006

 

Rate From chemist to chef

Original at Scientist external link    Sat, Dec 23

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 UK - Some topnotch chefs dismiss the technique, including Alice Waters of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., who prefers a hands-on intimacy with ingredients. ...

Rate Piggy Self-Promoter: Jason Neroni?

Original at Gawker external link    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)....

Rate A natural muckraker

Original at Sacramento Bee external link    Sun, Nov 26

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 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 ...

Rate Jason Neroni: I Love Wylie, But ...

Original at New York Magazine external link    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 ...

Rate Living Large at a Big Apple Big Easy Party

Original at New York Magazine external link    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. ...


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