Farm-to-Table Pioneer on Why We Still Need Better Food

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🗓️ 28 June 2024

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Alice Waters helped the farm-to-table movement go mainstream in the U.S. through her restaurant Chez Panisse. In the decades since she has kept advocating for locally grown, organic food over the fast food Americans regularly consume. Kate Linebaugh sat down with Waters at The Wall Street Journal’s Global Food Forum. To watch a video of the conversation, check out the episode on Spotify. Further Listening: – Could Paris Hilton Create the 'Next Disney?' – Live from Seattle: A Weird Economy + Election Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Kate. This episode was recorded live at the Wall Street Journal Global Food Forum.
0:09.2	You can also see it as a video if you listen on Spotify.
0:13.2	Enjoy.
0:13.8	In the US, the farm to Table Movement is basically everywhere.
0:24.3	There are nearly 9,000 farmers markets
0:27.1	and locally sourced seasonal menus
0:29.6	are offered at restaurants around the country. But it wasn't always this way. One of the
0:35.8	pioneers of this movement is Alice Waters, the chef activist and writer. She
0:42.0	founded the legendary California restaurant Shay Panise
0:45.5	in the early 1970s.
0:47.8	There, she built out a philosophy of using only the freshest locally grown ingredients.
0:54.0	To do that, she teamed up with nearby farmers,
0:57.0	and she adjusted her menu based on what they were growing.
1:01.0	The idea was that this restaurant in Northern California should serve food
1:06.5	grown nearby. In the decades since, Alice Waters has worked to turn Americans away from fast food toward a slow food mentality.
1:17.0	And now she wants to bring her vision of a revolutionized food system to a larger population.
1:25.0	Live from the Wall Street Journal Global Food Forum,
1:30.0	this is a special recording of the Journal Podcast, our show about money, business, and power.
1:37.0	I'm Kate Leinbaugh, Alice Waters.
1:40.0	Welcome.
1:41.0	Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
1:44.0	This episode is.
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