Alice Waters

Chez Panisse Demolition Will Be Significant, No Opening Date Yet

No one was hurt when a fire hit Berkeley's Chez Panisse on March 8, but the restaurant's structure was damaged. Early reports suggested the café and restaurant would be closed for only a few weeks of construction, but Alice Waters has posted an update on the restaurant's site with more details, exp ... More >>

A Fire Hit Berkeley's Chez Panisse Last Night

A fire was reported at 3:04 a.m. this morning on the grounds of Alice Waters' Berkeley restaurant, Chez Panisse. No one has been injured, but the restaurant's front dining area sustained serious damages. "At this point, it appears to be an exterior fire that worked its way to the interior," Fire De ... More >>

Telepan Retains Its Luster - and Then Some

This luscious squash and pecan tart could be the seasonal conclusion to your meal. CIA grad Bill Telepan had worked at Le Cirque, Gotham, and Ansonia - the first really ambitious restaurant on the Upper West Side - when he was propelled to fame by a 3-star Times review of Judson Grill. After the u ... More >>

Rosemary's Has a Roof Party

A new West Villager channels an old West Villager

Listen: Food Is the New Rock, You Eat What You Are

Food Is the New Rock has a new podcast, and a recent episode features L.A.'s Jonathan Gold. There's a lot of fun food- and music-related chit chat, but the highlight has got to be when Gold mentions that his favorite blog in the world is The Hairpin.

Our 10 Best East Village Restaurants, 2012 Edition

These chicken chile guajillo enchiladas at Downtown Bakery are every bit as good -- and spicy -- as they look. The East Village may be the city's most eclectic and rewarding dining destination, though this aspect of the neighborhood is sometimes eclipsed by its bars and cocktail lounges. You can d ... More >>

There Will Be Mushrooms: New Film Explores the Emotional Hazards of Foraging

Finally, something that combines the two great loves of twee urban foodies--foraging for local ingredients and melancholy independent cinema. Now, Forager was filmed in all five NYC boroughs, as well as parts of the Hudson Valley and New Jersey. The concept? A couple makes a living foraging wild ... More >>

Burger King Steals All McDonald's Good Ideas; First Lady Honored as James Beard Sustainable Food Visionary

​Burger King is testing new menu items, including specialty coffees, low-fat parfaits, oatmeal with dried fruit, and salads... sound familiar? [Nation's Restaurant News] Sbarro, which filed for bankruptcy this year, has proposed a restructuring plan that would give ownership of the company to ... More >>

Brushstroke: The Feast From the East

David Bouley looks to the land of the rising nigiri

HOMEGROWN

A raw talk on all things fresh

Food Day 2011 Will Attempt to Get America to 'Eat Real'

​Since 1981, World Food Day has come around every October to increase awareness and understanding of hunger, and promote actions to alleviate it. But its scope is just so planetary, so mindful of countries that don't suffer from an overabundance of junk food, subsidized corn, and diabetic thir ... More >>

Oh No! Napkins Are Shrinking; Starbucks Hot Tea Claim Suspicious

​Apparently, napkins are shrinking. The average size has gone from 30 inches square some 25 years ago to 20. [Wall Street Journal] Alice Waters's daughter, Fanny Singer, admits that she sometimes buys imported, non-organic fruit out of season, surely to her mother's disapproval. [Wall Street ... More >>

Thomas Keller to Be Recognized by French Legion of Honor; Subway Now Bigger Than McDonald's Worldwide

​Thomas Keller will be named Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, joining the ranks of Julia Child and Alice Waters as the only Americans in the food world to get the honor. [Diner's Journal] More good news about the Mediterranean diet: a new Greek study found new evidence that it helps i ... More >>

Yes, Foodies Are Ridiculous. But Then So Is B.R. Myers!

B.R. Myers​In the March issue of The Atlantic, vegan, curmudgeon, North Korea expert, and animal-rights activist B.R. Myers goes after foodies in an article entitled "The Moral Crusade Against Foodies." I've got to admit, we've given him a very broad target. He begins by extracting damning q ... More >>

Alice Waters Weighs in on Nathan Myhrvold's Modernist Cuisine

​Nathan Myhrvold's Modernist Cuisine may still have a while before it hits the shelves, but Alice Waters has already offered her own informal review.

Is Paula Deen Scary Enough to Be Your Halloween Costume? Um, That Would Be a Yes.

Scary: Guy Fieri.​Stumped for a great Halloween costume this year? Check out CHOW's excellent gallery of food-celebrity costumes. Some are scary, like the Paula Deen, complete with lightning-white teeth. Others are just, well, awesome, like the purple-draped Alice Waters or slightly slutty Mic ... More >>

It's Anthony Bourdain's Birthday. Here Are 10 Things You Can Get Him.

The birthday boy in his birthday suit.​ Did you know that Anthony Bourdain turned 54 today? Neither did we, but a co-worker thoughtfully informed us of this fact. As of late, Bourdain seems to have pretty much everything a man could want in life: a successful career, an adored wife and daughte ... More >>

Chang, Pollan, Grandin Make the 2010 Time 100 List

Jason Koski/Cornell UniversityTemple Grandin​Time has spit out its annual Time 100 list, and managed to make room on it for a few people concerned with what we put in our pie holes.

Just in Time for Earth Day, PBS Gets DIRT! The Movie

If you missed the premiere screening of DIRT! on PBS this Tuesday, local stations will air the hour-long documentary again on Sunday and Monday. The movie, narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis, examines the effects of industrial farming on our soils and offers ways to reverse these effects. It features t ... More >>

Alice Waters' Revolution May Soon Be Televised

"Could I be more PBS?"​Alice Waters may be making the leap from her Edible Schoolyard to your living room. (Not that it would be her first foray onto the silver screen.) The first lady of slow food says she's looking into new ways of spreading her locavoric message, including the possibility o ... More >>

Alice Waters on Real Time with Bill Maher

Sadly, there was no panel discussion on Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher, instead the three guests (Billy Joe Armstrong, Chris Rock, and Alice Waters) sat down to individual interviews. Waters' segment was fine, although, oddly, she seems to be developing a faint, Madonna-style British accent. ... More >>

Alice Waters To Appear on Real Time with Bill Maher Tomorrow Night

We usually watch Real Time with Bill Mahar with the same zeal most reserve for an old-fashioned revival. "Speak it!" we screech, as Maher encourages Obama to tell off Republicans in Tiger-Woods-sexting-style. ("Shut the fuck up while I slap your face for making noise! Now pass the cap-and-trade law, ... More >>

En Route to Deification, Alice Waters Will Make a Pit Stop at Book Court Tonight For a Cookbook Signing

"So, I told him, that kumquat souffle may fly in Oakland, but it's not coming anywhere near my compost heap, boy-o."​Given how much she's been in the news lately for things having little to nothing to do with the actual preparation of food, it's not entirely surprising that plenty of folks hav ... More >>

Fast-Food Chains Replace Teens with Robots; Calorie Labeling Forces Some Restaurants to Shrink Portions

​Yet another journalist asks why, if Alice Waters has been such a revolutionary in the local, slow food movement, do so some many people hate her. [LA Times] Fast-food chains that once employed teenagers to carry out the most mindless, repetitive of tasks are now turning to robots to do these ... More >>

Northern Spy in East Village: The Apple of Their Eye

A new locavore looks upstate for inspiration

Jean-Georges's ABC Kitchen Will "Do What Alice Waters Did in the 1970s"

Jean-Georges will do Alice Waters, homemade yogurt included.​Mouthing Off has a preview of ABC Kitchen, Jean-Georges Vongerichten's soon-to-open cafe at ABC Carpet and Home.

Kids Working in Endowed, Spiffy Garden Controversial for Some Reason

​Letting schoolkids grow things in gardens has become controversial, the Times informs us today. Alice Waters, who runs Chez Panisse in Berkeley, has a foundation that endows programs in which children raise gardens at school. One of the "Edible Schoolyard" projects is starting in Gravesend, g ... More >>

Gravesend's P.S. 216 Will Become Home to New York's First Edible Schoolyard

The Edible Schoolyard will soon be sprouting in Gravesend.​ Fifteen years after Alice Waters built the original Edible Schoolyard in Berkeley, Ca., the program's first New York affiliate is set to bloom in Brooklyn.

Corby Kummer Stands Up for Alice Waters

Edible SchoolyardA nightmare of Caitlin Flanagan-sized proportions.​ On Tuesday, Caitlin Flanagan lobbed a large stink bomb in the direction of Alice Waters, attacking her Edible Schoolyard program in the pages of the latest issue of the Atlantic. Today, the Atlantic Food Channel's Corby Kumme ... More >>

Caitlin Flanagan Plants a Stick of Dynamite in Alice Waters' Garden

Edible SchoolyardOppressed student workers.​ In the latest issue of the Atlantic, Caitlin Flanagan engages in another round of Alice Waters target practice, attacking the "dowager queen of the grown-locally movement" for her previously seemingly unassailable Edible Schoolyard program.

The Blogroll Gazette--Eat Me Daily Hypes Obama Food Book; The 'Bag Drools Over Men's Health' Pig Porn

This week in food blogs... Eat Me Daily discovered a new book entitled The Obama Menu: Dining with Barack Obama, which compiles menus, photos, quotes, and recipes for dishes that Obama may have eaten. EMD was hardly thrilled by the spoiler alert, though: "Multiple appearances by food guru Alice Wat ... More >>

NOT NATURAL

A new documentary on how our food gets made

The Blogroll Gazette--Mixed Feelings On the Meatball Melee; Make Your Own Pork Chop Bo Lo Bao in Midtown

This week in food blogs... Eat Me Daily attended the Food for Thought forum at the Bushnell Theater in Hartford, Conn., where Anthony Bourdain went head-to-head with Alice Waters, while Duff Goldman looked on. EMD also posted a video of the discussion. [Eat Me Daily] Josh Ozersky emceed the Best M ... More >>

Under the Toque--Forgione At Monkey Bar, But Not For Long; Benno To Leave the Nest After All

Anthony Bourdain, Alice Waters, and Duff Goldman were on the panel for the sold out "Food for Thought" forum. Bourdain and Waters clashed on some issues, while Goldman marveled at being a celebrity chef. [Eat Me Daily] Top Chef Radhika Desai may soon be the chef de partie under Floyd Cardoz at Tabl ... More >>

The Alice Waters Debate: The Gift that Keeps on Giving

Laura Shapiro's article on Gourmet.com, The War on Alice Waters, has inspired even more blog posts about Waters--in turn producing even more back-and-forth in the comments sections on the subject of whether or not it is okay to criticize the high priestess of organic and local food. Shapiro's artic ... More >>

The Blogroll Gazette--KFC Kerfuffle Ruffles Feathers & In-N-Out to Come to NYC?

This week in blogs... Chowhound aims to answer the question of hot to deal with "restaurant food gawking," that is when fellow diners star hungrily at your food. [Chowhound] Eat Me Daily reacted to the recent Gourmet piece on Alice Waters, denouncing the author for defending the slow food maven by ... More >>

Oh, Alice Waters

Alice Waters has had an awful lot of advice for pretty much everyone lately, and that includes Thomas Keller. BlackBook reports that the magniloquent and high-flown but (presumably) well-meaning Waters was at Per Se this weekend, and she did not seem to enjoy herself one bit. Apparently, Waters sent ... More >>

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Commenting on Alice Waters

There's a really good commenters' thread going over at Serious Eats on the 60 Minutes Alice Waters interview. Reactions range from this:I appreciate her message, her commitment, etc. But one of the things that bugs me about her, whenever she addresses the cost- and time-prohibitive nature of living ... More >>

The Food Bubble: Pop!

Pop!The Times has an interesting article today comparing the restaurant industry to the real estate and financial sectors--there was a bubble, and yes, it burst. The article cites New York Department of Labor stats that show the restaurant industry gained 50,000 jobs in the last seven years, only to ... More >>

Deep Waters: Slow Food Maven on 60 Minutes

The mother of the slow food movement in the U.S., Alice Waters, was featured on 60 Minutes yesterday in what was a somewhat bland piece on her legacy and vision for an America that eats and cooks local, organic and sustainable food. "Say 'frozen' and Alice Waters shudders," pronounces correspondent ... More >>

Bourdain Gets Honest About Batali-Paltrow Show

Yes, in case you hadn't noticed, I'm a bit of a fan of one Anthony Bourdain and his brutal, witty honesty that lacks the contrivance of other brutal wits (Toby Young, thinking of you). Today, everyone's noting some amusing comment Bourdain made about Alice Waters in a recent interview. But we were e ... More >>

Obama's Kitchen Cabinet

TASTE TEST

Fastidious foodies on the prowl

Bull Market: A Restaurant Generated by Concept

Not what Alice Waters meant by 'market-driven'

Past Food Nation

Molly O'Neill wrangles 250 years of appealing mealing

Ordering Bottled Water Today = Major Faux Pas

G-Spot

A new Village Italian bistro masquerades as a gastropub