Alice Waters: We Are What We Eat
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- Alice Waters is a true Bay Area icon and one of the most influential chefs of her generation.
A long-time food activist, Waters first opened Bay Area local restaurant Chez Panisse in 1971 with the intention of feeding people good food during a time of political turmoil. Customers responded positively to the restaurant and its focus on locally sourced organic ingredients, delectable hand-made dishes, and wonderfully mastered hospitality.
In pioneering a revolutionary approach to food preparation and service, Waters determined that the rise of fast food, frozen meals, and prepackaged ingredients were increasingly overshadowing the human qualities of eating and cooking. In her recent book We Are What We Eat, Waters urges us to take up the mantle of slow food culture. She writes this book as a declaration of action against fast food values and a working theory about what we can do to change the course.
From years of working with regional farmers, Waters learned about the dangers of pesticides; the plight of fieldworkers; and the social, economic and environmental threats posed by industrial farming and food distribution. Thus she says every decision we make about what we put in our mouths affects our bodies and the world at large. By eating in a “slow way,” the philosophy at the core of her life’s work, Waters says we can be empowered to prioritize and nurture a different kind of culture, one that champions values such as biodiversity, seasonality, stewardship and pleasure in work.
Join us as Alice Waters teaches us how to change our relationship with food to unlock a radical reconsideration of how each of us cooks and eats.
July 12, 2022
SPEAKERS
Alice Waters
Chef; Founder and Owner, Chez Panisse; Author, We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto; Twitter@AliceWaters
In Conversation with William Rosenzweig
Faculty Co-Chair, Berkeley Haas Center for Responsible Business
Photo by Amanda Marsalis.
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Yes, let us be the change!!!
Alice, you received your wings from Berkeley. Thank goodness for us all!
I used to live in the same old victorian as Alice back in my Berkely days. Wish I had gotten a job with her now and took my life in that direction
I'm 82 and my brother is 80. I take absolutely no medications. Our parents were about 10 years older than our classmates' parents and had a little different lifestyle. On one and a half acres we grew most of our food; vegetables, many different kinds of fruit and berries, chickens for meat and eggs, and occasionally raised a calf or pig. Mom canned or froze our own produce. I would say that we grew up living organically. As a result, neither my brother nor I ever had a childhood disease, even though I was exposed many times through classmates, children, and grandchildren. When I was in my 50s I took up long-distance bicycle riding, and at age 58 rode my bicycle 3,600 miles across the US carrying about 30 lbs. of camping gear. I got lazy a few years ago and have become inactive, and that is killing me.
Cultivar boas práticas deveria ser uma conduta basilar à qualquer indivíduo e nosso organismo recebe toda uma carga de produtos que acabamos ingerindo, por vezes sem critério responsável, minando a saúde e nossa potencia enquanto seres pulsantes nesse vasto mundo. Tenho minhas ressalvas em relação às mídias, pq não sei se existe aí um viés meramente mercadológico na proposta apresentada mas, entendo que sempre é possível filtrar aquilo que se pretende fluir de uma cadeia justa e acho muito proveitoso quando nos deparamos com boas práticas e descobrimos pessoas engajadas que compartilham o seu conhecimento, é recompensador além de provocador na dose certa. Parabéns!!
Thank you Alice for the work that you do. This will be Gen Z's revolution, I think. First they will be the sickest generation, (pill popping, allergies, ADHD, autism, childhood diabetes) then they will see why.
Why does she always sound like she's about to cry?
She is older
Her name is not Alison.
What is it????
So we have to eat humans in order to become a human 😁