Alice Waters: A Love Affair with Food

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4.6 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Alice Waters has been called a food revolutionary. In 1971, she opened a cozy restaurant in Berkeley, California called Chez Panisse. It showcased seasonal, local, organic fruits and vegetables and meats... a radical departure from the kind of food Americans were used to eating. Waters and her restaurant ushered in the farm-to-table movement and raised Americans' consciousness about fresh ingredients and healthy eating. She talks here about the trip to France that started it all, about her dedication to taste, and about the environmental impact of our food choices. (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2019

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0:00.0	If you are my age, then you remember when salad meant only one thing.
0:08.0	Iceberg lettuce, chunks of pale tomato, and maybe, if you were lucky some shredded carrots with Russian dressing of
0:16.3	course farm to table locavore sustainably raised those, those ideas didn't exist in the 1960s and 70s, and there was no such thing as a foodie.
0:31.0	But then along came Alice Waters.
0:34.0	I was looking for taste.
0:37.0	I was really looking for taste.
0:39.0	And ultimately I ended up at the doorsteps of the organic local farmers because they were the ones that were growing food for taste.
0:53.0	Alice Waters wasn't trying to revolutionize the way Americans eat
0:58.0	when she opened Chepenez in 1971,
1:01.0	but she did.
1:03.0	Alice Waters at her kitchen table on this episode of What It Takes, a podcast about
1:09.7	passion, vision, and perseverance from the Academy of Achievement.
1:14.3	On today's menu at Shepenise, Golden Beat Carpachia with cucumbers,
1:20.1	nasturtions, capers and watercress. Now that's a salad.
1:27.0	I'm Alice Winkler.
1:30.0	Adam Aye, this child is gifted.
1:33.0	And I heard that enough that I started to believe it.
1:36.0	If you have the opportunity, not a perfect opportunity,
1:39.0	and you don't take it, you may never have another child.
1:42.0	It all was so clear it was just like the
1:44.8	picture started to form itself. There was no way in which a lie could prevail
1:50.0	over the truth darkness over light
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