Alice Waters News

"Ah! Platter " said Enrico , diminutive table twirling owner of Ristorante Posticino in Sea Point, spying my review copy of The Food & Wine Pairing Guide by Katinka van Niekerk and Brian Burke yesterday.

The shrinking daylight hours and the chillier weather are reason enough to eat at home.

A San Ramon fine-dining establishment that closed last year may be replaced with ... another fine dining establishment.

Chefs like Jamie Oliver , Alice Waters , Dominique Valadier , and Christopher Kimball have begun to make a difference, but there is still so much more to be done to make sure that every child has access to healthy food for lunch in school.

Slow Food St. Louis and Welcome Books have joined together with Onesto Pizza and Trattoria to host "A Slow Taste of Tuscany," a dinner to celebrate the new book Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town by Douglas Gayeton.

Alice Waters dropped into Larchmont Charter School yesterday for lunch and a discussion about improving the eating culture at schools.

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.