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 Stories About: Alice Waters AND food AND green living
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So Long, San Pellegrino
Restaurants, schools tap into local water supplies |
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30 May 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| So Long, San Pellegrino Restaurants, schools tap into local water supplies You've heard of eating locally, but the latest fad may be drinking locally. Some restaurants and schools are starting to serve filtered tap water instead of bottled water, citing the eco-impacts of packaging and shipping a product that's already available right thar in the kitchen. But it seems that pushing pints of Perrier is such ... |
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| Topics: Alice Waters, business, food, green living, news (all these topics) |
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Feed Your Head
Alice Waters leads 200-chef brigade to protect wild salmon |
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10 May 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Feed Your Head Alice Waters leads 200-chef brigade to protect wild salmon Led by celebri-chef Alice Waters, some 200 chefs in 33 states are calling on Congress to protect river habitats and deprioritize hydroelectric dams that cramp Northwest salmon's style. "Wild salmon is one of the unique, authentic heritage foods of the Pacific Northwest," reads a letter that the cooking coalition presented t ... |
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| Topics: Alice Waters, fishing, food, green living, news (all these topics) |
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Edible Media: Celebrity chefs tell all
Or, why the Vanity Fair treatment doesn't do justice to food history. |
Tom Philpott |
27 Sep 2006 |
Gristmill |
| It's the 1970s in Berkeley, California, and things are getting raunchy in the kitchen of Chez Panisse, where the cooks are busy revolutionizing high-end U.S. restaurant food -- among other activities: As dealers started showing up at the back door with regularity, [one cook] and some of his acquaintances got into increasingly harder stuff. 'We were doing opium stuffing,' he says. 'You stick it up your ass. Just a quarter of a gram, a little ball, and you bypass the ali ... |
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| Topics: Alice Waters, books, food, green living (all these topics) |
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Edible Media: The left gets hungry
The Nation comes out with its first food issue. |
Tom Philpott |
30 Aug 2006 |
Gristmill |
| 'Edible Media' is a biweekly look at interesting or deplorable food journalism on the web. The left has always had an uneasy relationship with pleasure -- and thus with food. For every freewheeling beatnik or free-loving hippie, there must be 10 dour left-wingers who see personal pleasure as an obscene indulgence in a world wracked by war, hunger, oppression, and environmental ruin. Yet one of the most powerful critiques of consumer capitalism is that it drains life ... |
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| Topics: Alice Waters, food, green living (all these topics) |
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