Real Food Pioneer: Alice Waters
What’s in your kitchen?
A fireplace that I can cook in and big windows that look out to my garden. There is no equipment, as such; certainly not machines. I have lots of pestles and mortars, a rather small stove, a big table to eat at and a big table to cook on.
I mostly buy food at the market and use it pretty much right away. My refrigerator has a lot of condiments, jams and jellies. I also keep pasta, grains and couscous.
I grow mostly herbs in my garden, as well as some salad and radishes and citrus fruits. There’s also lots of mint and lemon verbena. I love making fresh mint tea. We serve it after meals at the restaurant.
How would you sum up your food philosophy?
Pretty simply that I want to buy food that’s locally grown, sustainably farmed, seasonably ripe, and then I want to cook pretty simply. I really love having the fireplace going. I cook eggs and toast in the fire; that’s my specialty, if you can call it one.
How have our attitudes to food changed?
I think there has been a reaction to the manipulation of our food system and I think we’re finally coming back to our senses. We’re just realising that we need to eat real food, food that’s grown for our good health, and we need to eat a variety of foods.
I think the most exciting thing is the biodiversity that’s coming back to gardens. We’re not just getting five kinds of lettuce now, we’re getting 25.
What annoys you about food culture in Britain?
The idea that it’s separate from life. The idea of food being a trend and that it will be changing all the time. Well, there are some things about food that are very basic for us to learn about. When food gets disconnected from nature and culture and becomes just a fuel, this is a moral issue. Food is precious - the most important thing.
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This feels like a hollow victory, considering the food will be so bad nobody will want to eat it in the first place.
Resubmit this under a title that isn’t disgustingly cutesy. Please. Please.
Summary: Buy natural stuff and eat it.
right, because instead of selling a product to entire countries, it’s best to focus on the smallest segment in the world and charge them 1000% more for food that they can get at the grocery store. Rich people are totally willing to spend way more money on GM food just because of its additional benefits.Don’t kid yourself, companies want to sell their product to COUNTRIES, which would include the poor people. Companies create the plant/ technology and then license it to whomever wants to use it. Licensing involves little overhead for the company but huge profits based on royalties.And do you have any idea how many rich people would have to buy GM crops, and for how much, to offset the huge R&D/ production costs? That statement is just too ludicrous to even argue about. Please do a bit more research on the subject.Bioengineerpermalinkparentfeedback | bookmarklets | buttons | widget | store | advertise WIRED.com - WIRED How-ToUse of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy(c) 2008 CondeNet, Inc. All rights reserved.please log in or register in to vote for the links you like or dislike. this will affect their ranking and help customize reddit for you.create a new accountall it takes is a username and passwordusername:email: (optional)password:verify password:setMessage($(’captcha’), ‘type the letters from the image above’);remember meI understand and agree that registration on or use of this site constitutes agreement to its User Agreement and Privacy Policy.create account
It is baffling and stunning that any airline has to be ordered to do this. What’s wrong with the people in charge?
The *reason* for the coverage?No, the reason is really hungry people.Unfortunately the really hungry people may be used to further strengthen the myth that GMO foods are the answer.
Article says how GM enthusiasts talk about how GM crops will benefit poor people, but these products never come to market. They do not seem to consider the possibility that this is because companies instead grow GM crops for sale to rich people, because there’s more profit in it.
Hmmm… So the implication is thatMonsanto needs to rev up the market for GMO foods (for which it is the largest patent holder and)To do so, the cost of regular non-GMO stuff has to skyrocketTo get this stuff to skyrocket, supply must be divertedTo divert supply, we could shoot it into space? Spread some kind of corn disease? Or create a global energy shortage, and then channel the non-gmo corn into fuel tanks! yes!Question (aside from how can we be so stupid to be using FOOD for direct non-human mechanical energy fuel…) - why not legislate that GMO stuff is fantastic, as long as it is fed to machines and not living organisms? That quenches the demand for machine food, and leaves plenty of non GMO stuff for humans and their food animals.Right? What am I missing?
No shelter!? Human rights violation!
Why on earth would I wanna do that?