The Mother Of Slow Food

Alice Waters has been preaching the virtues of cultivating fresh food for decades. As Lesley Stahl reports, this world-renowned chef and restaurateur hopes a slower approach to the food we eat will keeps us healthier and greener.

[@MrDemon3434]

After seeing her feed the camera crew made me like her so much more.

[@mirada2007]

It's just so beautiful of the way how she reestablished the relationship between food and these kids! I wanna be in that program as well!! It's so precious!

[@snoozeking7497]

Alice Waters did herself a huge favour by not getting too ambitious and opening other restaurants. That was Jeremiah Tower’s big problem.

[@peterakelly]

The egg thing pretty well says it all about Berkeley.

[@pikespeaklosangeles]

She's a dreamer, but man does she inspire...

[@bathshuaeshetbnayahu2687]

To eat at Chez Panisse is on my bucket list! I would also love to meet her as well.

[@emerybayblues]

8:32 can you do that on a "spare the air day"?

[@B0SSLADy77]

LOVE HER!

[@mpaska]

I'm curious to know why some of you are so furious about this womans opinions. Is it because she challenges you to confront the decisions you make on a daily basis? Has it ever occurred to you that she may truly want everyone to be healthy and have access to adequate nourishment? Also, you can cry about organic being expensive but when one chooses spend thousands of $ on flat screen tvs and game systems the argument becomes moot. Prioritize better and stop complaining about those trying to help.

[@brownin78]

She's Wonderful!

[@caf0101931]

I really do appreciate how she is trying to help everyone eat healthy, because our obesity rate in the U.S. is really high. I try to eat healthier foods, but sometimes people cannot afford it.

[@amy_gaming200k3]

I'm a working mom without a microwave. Microwaves melt plastic into your food!!!!

[@XNijiX]

For thousands of years, there was also massive risk of crop failure, draught, pests, disease, and other things that led to starvation.

[@timnray99]

i come from a Southern family of cooks, chops, eggs, butter. whole milk...you get the idea....my mother lived to 95, teetotaler, smoker....her siblings all died in their late 80's...this woman lives in a dream world supported by dreamers...drink your V-8 and be happy

[@MrYoumitube]

Hopefully one day soon..good "affordable" produce and ingredients will be available to all including the poor..and then we can be inspired to eat good healthy food then the quick option of buying fast food because it's cheap and easy.

[@792lkuhn]

ets feed every single child in school breakfast lunch and an afternoon snack ,for free and feed them reel food. Waters is absolutely right 1 in 2 children will get diebeates. people its time for some change what we really need to is we need to start working on making real food affordable.

[@josoghurt5192]

" I don’t know about you, but burning up a couple of cords of firewood for a single fucking egg doesn’t exactly send a message of sustainability to me. " - Anthony Bourdain

[@johnthompsonnunu2556]

It’s not uncommon to spend $15 to $20 at Burger King, for the the same price you can get the makings for 3 to 4 organic salads, so how do figure it’s too expensive to eat organic?

[@benleif430]

well whaddya know- theresa vegetable garden at the white house. congrats Ms. Waters!

[@TallDrink911]

Sadly, no mention or credit given to Jeremiah Tower. He brought Chez Panisse to the forefront and culinary lexicon of America.

[@lkfrostad]

Kyle LaCroix that was some serious but truthful shade you just threw at Alice! Love it

[@darkmalus3033]

Michele Caraman e stato qui

[@mes621]

You're right about the money, alot of organic produce is INSANELY expensive. Especially in this shitty economy.

[@Jerichocafe1]

you always have your box of KD.

[@tkrznj]

do yall recon she has ever been to maccie d's?

[@user-ge7tk4un9b]

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[@charleswilson4598]

Her vision of eating fresh is fine but unrealistic. I live in the Midwest where we have great fresh produce in the stores and farmers markets in the Summer but not so much in the Winter. If we didn't import fresh vegetables in the Winter we wouldn't have much fresh produce to eat. People who live in California don't understand how the rest of the country lives.

[@robertrafferty3144]

Charlie Wilson No one cares about the Midwest except you troglodytes that live there.

[@charleswilson4598]

Your ignorance is obvious.

[@namebrandmason]

I also live in the Midwest. One time I was working at a grocery store and had a fresh transplant from California pitch a fit because the only "local" produce we had was Strawberries from Arkansas. This was in March. That said, Magnus Nilsson ran a mostly farm-to-table restaurant in Sweden. Cooking with seasons can also mean root cellars and pickling.

[@catherinemartina6469]

The mother of slow food was patience gray

[@snoozeking7497]

She’s unmarried and childless, right? Maybe I should check her out.

[@NocturnalToothbrush]

Who?

[@nikoGh5247]

i want her 2 B my mom

[@kicek016]

Am I speaking with you? NO

[@edwardlee3419]

So Alice got kids under the legal age to work -to work for her for free? And an endless supply of kids all in the name of "knowledge" by leveraging her name as a brand.

[@gmar7836]

Oh please!

[@saigeconnolly]

I absolutely love her movement.. just wish she would stop reminding me of Hillary Clinton.. that’d be greeeeaaaaaaat

[@tan8576]

How she looks like to Hillary Clinton indeed.

[@TheMabes69]

Can somebody please get Leslie a new wig? JFC!

[@OnlyForAngels]

+TheMabes69 She is such a dope. I do not see her appeal at all, except as a dopey older broad.

[@gmar7836]

No. She’s fine

[@w.a.watson3078]

It is elitist because most people can't afford to buy organic. In minority area's you can't even find organic food even if you could afford it. Poor people can't afford olive oil. Growing food is an option, but if you live in an apartment with no garden space where do you grow the veggies?

[@charleswilson4598]

You are right. And in some poor sections of our cities people are lucky to even have grocery stores close by.

[@robertrafferty3144]

W.A. watson That’s completely false. There are brands like Brandless that are organic, non GMO and are cheap. And like they said even disgusting Walmart has organic food now. Eating terribly is a choice.

[@gmar7836]

No it’s not.

[@meknewxenu]

I love her vision but she is completely disconnected with the bulk of the worlds population's means. She has a grand vision of food, but does not have the knowledge of economics. To say people shouldn't buy Nike shoes but grapes, is ridiculous and shows a lack of understanding reality This weakens her argument. She wants Shark Fin soup for her last meal, and a roaring fire for one egg is hardly conservation minded. We need to change our diets but we need a real champion. Jaime Oliver!!

[@justmegeorgie5930]

I HOPE 8 YEARS LATER... ... YOU'RE NOT SUCH AN IDIOT!!! NIKE SHOES VS GOOD FOOD! .... IS YOUR HEALTH AND BODY WORTH IT! IT'S ALL ABOUT PRIORITIES!... WHAT A HORRIBLE WOMAN FOR PRESENTING SUCH FREAKING COMMON SENSE! .... THANK GOD NOW IN 2019 ORGANIC FOODS ARE LITERALLY EVEN FOUND AT THE 99 CENT STORE!!!