Posted by Valerie Woolard on Thursday, August 06, 2009 11:00 pm
Alice Waters, owner of Chez Panisse, slow foodie and haver-of-feuds with Anthony Bourdain is set to receive the Legion of Honor. On Tuesday, Waters reportedly got a letter informing her that she’d sautéed her way to France’s highest honor. No word yet on how exactly she was chosen for the prize or when she’ll receive it.
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Alice Waters to Receive France’s Highest Honor [SFoodie]
during the face-to-face debate between Slow Food-pushing Berkeleyan Alice WatersBlonde Ambition divx and foodie vagabond Anthony Bourdain at last week’s Connecticut Forum.
Also, it wasn’t just the two of them going at it–Ace of Cakes baker Duff Goldman doesn’t say much in this clip, but he seems to play a kind of mediating role while Waters and Bourdain duke it out with words … and their eyes. Angry, angry eyes.
Posted by Jill Cowan on Monday, January 26, 2009 04:10 pm
It looks like Alice Waters’s culinary regality might not be enough to keep her Slow Food-sowing, local produce-julienning hands clean. And Anthony Bourdain might be a trifle intimidated, judging by the speed with which he backpedaled over his earlier digs at Waters. Well, as intimidated as someone who calls anyone else’s letters to the president “wildly hubristic” can be, anyway.
According to Gothamist–yet another “Ist” blog–Bourdain and Waters are set to duke it out, face to face, at a forum for gourmet heavyweights in May. We certainly look forward to hearing about this one. It promises to be a real ”food fight.” (Ha! Take that, Gothamist! Or … not.)
Update: More Waters-bashing on NPR. Wow, things are getting way more intense than we anticipated, up in here.
Posted by Jill Cowan on Thursday, January 22, 2009 10:03 pm
Alice Waters, you’re our hero … Or are you?
Not only did Berkeley’s most famously awesome foodie raise some major cash-monies for Washington charity organizations by cooking up (presumably) delicious noms for some D.C. do-gooders–er, eat-gooders, in any case–but she also kinda, maybe saved-ish someone from choking.
“How exactly does one kinda, maybe save-ish someone?” you ask. Simple, really. You see someone who is choking (in this case, cookbook author Joan Nathan) and then you go find someone (in this case, celebrity chef Tom Colicchio) who knows the Heimlich maneuver and then they save the choking person. Now, before you start weighing the woman down with mental (or actual) medals of honor, you may want to consider an interesting point that one SFist commenter phrased perhaps a bit more bluntly than we would have: read more »
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Alice Waters, you’re our hero … Or are you?