Subject: Alice Waters

• Saplings of the City

  March 18, 2009

• Valentino, Mussolini and the 12th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival: Notes on Day Two

  July 25, 2007

• Chef Daniel Serves Syd Barrett Raw at the Rock-It

  October 12, 2007

• Slow Food Nation To Contemplate Then Masticate SF This May

  November 8, 2007

• Chef Daniel Serves Syd Barrett Raw at the Rock-It

  October 12, 2007

• Slow Food Nation To Contemplate Then Masticate SF This May

  November 8, 2007

• Waters And Newsom To Shoot The Bull On Sustainable Food

  May 27, 2008

• Slow Food Nation Wants YOU To Help Plant The Victory Garden!

  July 11, 2008

• Saturday: Slow Food Nation Victory Garden at Civic Center

  July 13, 2008

• State of the Cart: Alice Waters on Street Food

  July 16, 2008

• Localvore: Bay Area Cravings of the Now

  (Image via Maangchi)•Mu [SFGate]•The Negroni [Bay Area Bites]•Insanely priced food magazines [7x7]•A new reason to call Alice Waters a hero [SFist]

  January 20, 2009

• Localvore: Bay Area Cravings of the Now

  •Winter salads [SFGate]•Hot toddies [Bay Area Bites]•Much (more) ado about Alice [Menupages SF]•Little Paris, in the East Bay [Contra Costa Times](Alice Waters photo via Menupages SF)

  January 27, 2009

• Road Trip Pit Stop: Corti Brothers

  A stop at this store a must for many Bay Area gourmets passing through Sacramento.

  February 26, 2009

• Anthony Bourdain's Hunger for More Inevitably Leads Him to S.F.

  media.newsobserver.comWhere do you go for entrails, chiles, and bacony goodness after you've been to Vietnam, Uzbekistan, and Colombia? Why, San Francisco, of course!Famed tough-guy foodie Anthony Bourdain is in these parts right now, it's rumored, sampling our finest and weirdest cuisine for his Travel Channel show, No Reservations. Our Robert Lauriston, fellow offal fancier, thinks Bourdain may have timed his visit to coincide with Chris Cosentino's famed Head to Tail dinners at Incanto, this

  March 17, 2009

• Cool Clear Waters

  July 23, 2008

• Orson Not Well

  Ambitious, edgy California cuisine flirts with the future in uneven fashion.

  July 23, 2008

• New Kid in Town

  April 9, 2008

• Eating Right

  January 2, 2008

• The Gift of Reading

  Still have people to buy for? Consider these books as last-minute stocking stuffers.

  December 19, 2007

• Pizza Smackdown

  September 26, 2007

• Tartine

  November 29, 2006

• Foraging at the Forge

  October 25, 2006

• Sine Coi Non

  July 26, 2006

• The San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmers Market Cookbook

  May 31, 2006

• Best Pizza

  May 19, 2004

• Best Bartender

  Alberta Straub

  May 19, 2004

• That's Amore

  September 25, 2002

• Winners and Losers

  May 15, 2002

• Steaking a Claim

  Mel Hollen's Bar & Fine Dining

  May 8, 2002

• California Classic

  JoAnn's Cafe

  March 28, 2001

• Tuscan Treasures

  November 15, 2000

• Gossip!!!

  June 28, 2000

• Chic Simple Italian

  June 21, 2000

• Best Restaurant Trend

  May 17, 2000

• Dish

  February 14, 1996

• Dish

  December 13, 1995

• Why All the Hatin' on Alice Waters?

  America's most hated?Activist icon Alice Waters has come in for harsh criticism in recent weeks in both bloggerdom and the national press -- Eater SF documents the vitriol here, and here -- including an apparently erroneous incident that had Waters throwing a hissy fit at Thomas Keller's Per Se. Criticism of the Chez Panisse founder is hardly new, but we're sensing something novel: highly personal attacks aimed like sucker punches. What's going on? Vanity Fair contributor David Kamp, who wrote

  May 6, 2009

• Confessions of a Restaurant Critic: Range, Zuni, and Chez Panisse are Still Just as Fabulous as Ever

  In Praise of Sardines via FlickrRange's light hasn't dimmed a bit in four yearsIt's rare that a restaurant critic gets to revisit favorite places, whether old or new. We're always looking for the next place to write about. (It's surprising how many friends will mention, after they read my review of some good new place, that they'd love to eat there with me. Not gonna happen! I'm eating somewhere else!) But when friends from out of town visit, all bets are off. Especially when, as in the case of

  May 20, 2009

• Former Alice Waters Assistant Turning His Hand to Bento Boxes with a Drop-Dead Sensibility

  Peko-Peko's kakuni, made with pork from Marin Sun FarmsEven in this town, many of us know Japanese food as monster maki, fast-food ramen, and greasy tonkatsu cutlets. Sylvan Brackett wants to change that. The former assistant to Alice Waters is making bento boxes combining authentic Japanese technique and Slow Food sourcing. Make that Sylvan Mishima Brackett. The 33-year-old wants you to know he has a Japanese mom, grew up in a Japanese-style house, and spent two years cooking in Japan. Bracket

  May 21, 2009

• Documentary Blasting Big Ag Blasted by -- Guess Who? -- Big Ag

  Food, Inc., the documentary that blasts Big Ag the way An Inconvenient Truth blasted carbon dioxide, is racking up breathless reviews. The film, which exposes the nation's industrial farming practices as ruinous, rapacious, and just plain gross, opens tomorrow at Landmark Theatres' Embarcadero Center. Producer and Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser will be on hand Saturday for the 4:50 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. screenings. Someone not psyched about the movie's opening? The very lobbying groups and

  June 11, 2009

• Summer Reading That Won't Make You Stupid: Sonoma Farm Diary That Thinks Globally

  In Field Days: A Year of Farming, Eating, and Drinking in California (UC Press, $24.95), Sonoma State professor Jonah Raskin writes about more than just day-to-day operations at family-run, organic Oak Hill Farm alongside Mexican immigrants, an Irish mechanic, and a French beekeeper. Raskin also describes the growth and history of the organic movement, touching on Jack London (who named Sonoma the Valley of the Moon), Luther Burbank, Robert Rodale, Adelle Davis, Wendell Berry, and even Rudolf St

  July 6, 2009

• Alice Waters' Favorite Places In the Bay Area, Mapped for Your Pleasure

  Meredith BrodyAlice [hearts] waltzing -- and using Google Maps.Alice Waters plopped down at our table last night to catch her breath between waltzes. A four-piece bal musette band was playing at the annual Bastille Day celebration at Chez Panisse (aioli, cassoulet, tri-color ice cream bombe), and Mlle. Waters was dancing her feet off. Earlier this morning, Google released a map of Alice's favorite places (restaurants, food shops, cultural centers, clothes boutiques), and we asked her to mention

  July 15, 2009

• Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

  Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. First Foodie: Is Michelle Obama a stealth locavore? Grist's Tom Laskawy ponders the possibility. According to the Washington Post, FLOTUS's commitment to denying Big Ag goes a bit beyond scratching out a few rows of heirloom radishes on the South Lawn. She's sending signals that she may be willing to drive the agenda of the good food movement in schools, a focus (starting this fall) of Slow Food USA. Writes Laskawy: Just as health care reform

  July 15, 2009

• Google's Favorite Places Awards: Strange-Looking and Subject to Graffiti

  The Google award at Humphry Slocombe.On Wednesday, SFoodie's Meredith Brody reported on Google mapping out Alice Waters' favorite places in the Bay Area. That same day, the tech company dropped off exclamation point-looking statues in front of the chosen places of Waters as well as the selections from the other San Francisco cartographers: Mayor Gavin Newsom, Michael Mina, Stanlee Gatti, Gary Danko, Elizabeth Varnell, Nate Valentine, Grant Washburn, Greg Farrington, Kevin Rose, Nate Query, Laura

  July 17, 2009

• Alice Waters to Receive France's Highest Honor

  JonBauer/Flickr Mon dieu.Word is that Alice Waters has gotten a letter informing her that she's going to be receiving the French Legion of Honor, otherwise known as the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur. As of this morning, assistant Varun Mehra didn't yet know when his boss would be getting the award or where -- he's been trying to get in touch with the French Consul General in S.F. to learn more. Established by Napoleon in 1802, the Legion is France's highest honor, appointed by t

  August 4, 2009

• Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

  ​Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. SFoodie Pissy. Rant. Session.: Now that the weekend's events are over, let it be said: Could there be a better way to piss off editors than to name an even "SF Chefs. Food. Wine."? Though it clocks a mere four words, SF C.F.W. seems way too long, has too damn much punctuation, and just effs with any sense of language flow. Now that we got that off our chest, let us praise Stephanie Im of Bay Area Bites for coverage (in words and pics)

  August 10, 2009

• Just As Long As Alice Doesn't Show Up in a Tube Top

  Fruit forward: Lynch's upcoming CD.​It promises to be a multi-dimensional Boomer blowout when a founding member of Berkeley's Delicious Revolution goes all blues rocker. On Wednesday, October 7, at the Great American Music Hall, wine import maverick and a hobbyist musician/tunesmith Kermit Lynch will perform joints from his soon-to-hit CD Man's Temptation. Backing musicians include a guitarist who's jammed with Fleetwood Mac, a keyboardist for Rod Stewart, and another guitarist who's made

  August 31, 2009

• Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

  ​Our favorite morsel from the food blogs. The semiotics of yum: We once had an editor who enforced a ban on hated words: crispy, veggie, hipster, and foodie, a tag that necessarily shows up often on a site called SFoodie. At Bay Area Bites today, SFoodie contributor Andrew Simmons muses on foodie's connotations: an essential handle for a way of life, or buggy buzzword? Alice Waters famously hates foodie -- we figure she realizes its power to diminish, recognizes its suggestion of vapid

  September 8, 2009

• Local Heavies to Celebrate Cecilia Chiang, the Julia Child of Chinese Cooking

  Silent auction prizes include signed copies of Chiang's latest book.​Famed San Francisco restaurant owner, cooking teacher, and consultant Cecilia Chiang is being honored on her 90th birthday Friday with a banquet at Yank Sing Rincon Center (101 Spear at Mission). The eight-course menu was created by Chiang, whose Mandarin restaurant influenced generations of U.S. restaurateurs. Students Chiang has taught include Julia Child, James Beard, Alice Waters, and Danny Kaye. Since retiring from t

  September 16, 2009

• Doggy Bag: Chez Stoner

  ​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Go ask Alice: Eater spotted a from-across-the-pond profile of Alice Waters from Elfreda Pownall at Telegraph.co.uk. Of course, "Elfreda Pownall" is one of those Anglo-queeny drag tags, like Dame Edna Everage or Susan Boyle (we kid, we kid: of course Ms. Pownall is real). Still, drag queen though she isn't, the author does swing a bit pervy when it comes to the toke-and-grope scene that was Chez Panisse in the early 1970s. Like this: At first laid-back

  October 19, 2009