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.

[@chocolatepoundcake]

She is fantastic. Her food is incredible. Her mentality is wonderful. Her ideas are desperately needed and so inspiring. I got teary-eyed at the end, because she speaks my mind with everything she said. And because too few people realize the value of real unadulterated foods.

[@LocsTheChef]

Anthony Bourdain's Medium Raw brought me here.

[@tcpaa]

This is a movement we need. Fast food is killing us. It's a result of the fast paced world. I hope that everyone comes to realize we have a problem.

[@aubreyv1389]

Wow, I’m here in 2021. The opening segment highlighting how Walmart’s “now” have organic foods; it’s crazy how organic food has become so available in just a decade.

[@marjoriejohnson6535]

I should have gotten together with Alice wayback when.she talks of wild strawberries..Cornell test gardens had a strawberry as close to the wild strawberries I had picked for my mother at 10 cents a quart...if they were perfevtectly picked..they were called FLETCHER and were small and red all the way thru. I planted them in 1975 and they were so close that they made me giddy and made the best jelly ever. I hope somebody try to bring them back because I haven't been able to find since 1984 when mine had reverted..to many bad wild had cross breed and they weren't good any longer...remember that folks CORNEL TEST GARDENS ...FLETCHER STRAWBERRIES....I am disabled pretty much now but still have a small worm farm and organic pots on my deck for growing vegetables.

[@Marialla.]

Any way we can contribute to this is good. I grow herbs on my windowsill, and greens in a pot on my balcony. It contributes a surprising amount of food to my family's weekly diet. I know the vitamins help us, and the fact that it's obviously organic makes me feel safe. We are very poor and have little space or even sunlight, but every little bit helps!

[@carolcalf2032]

Look how we have changed in fourteen years. Food without antibiotics or pesticides should be available to all. I watch many homesteaders and like her they practice her principles across the board

[@user-mw5wp4uy1o]

We shouldn't have to pay extra for food not doused in chemicals. However, you can pay for organic now, or pay the doctor and pharmaceutical companies later for cancer treatment and medications.

[@donaldemery7827]

You should make a movie about Alice Waters and have Glenn Close star in it.

[@garyrobertson6778]

Leslie Stahl didn't appreciate Alice and Alice could tell.

[@mmmmathewbarney]

You all should read Anthony Bourdain's chapter "Go Ask Alice" from his new book "Medium Raw". It is a very good piece that does a much better job analyzing the slow food movement as well as Alice Waters as a whole. Much better and more intricate than some hokey 60 Minutes piece.

[@PaulaEdwina]

I'm in public health and completely understand what you're saying. Poverty is a risk factor or obesity because in the US crap is way cheaper than healthy. Literally if you have $5.00 and 3 people to feed the dollar menu seems to be the answer. Unfortunately this is our reality and there are few choices. And what's worse is that the poorer you are, the more hours you work, and the harder it is to eat healthy. It doesn't change the outcome though does it? Eat crap and die young.

[@sonaliverma1218]

I came here because fast food gave me PCOS, obesity, clinical depression and anxiety. It's true. Eating fresh and slow cooked food is slowly my life for the better. The worst was my Coca Cola addiction.

[@panter82]

Slow Food movement was founded in Italy in 1989

[@dantheman4861]

Bruh I died when she said Nike Shoes!!!

[@KeelanWilliams]

Im the kid that gets cut off at 10:22

[@happybeach777]

🤘🏼❤️

[@300BC]

It's as if they're learning to be southern in their eating habits. Slow cooking is the essence of southern cooking, with some or all of it being homegrown and/or very local. Everyone should know the basics of farming and cooking.

[@PaulaEdwina]

Brilliant. In public health we know that we can effect change by influencing the behavior of the children of the family. And frankly, if you come up against precious time that you can dedicate to the rat race or to the health of your family what do you think you should do - buy the kids McDonalds and hurry off to the rat race?

[@mozellebailey-sulak6356]

Did she ever get the garden at the white house?

[@dingodingo82]

People like different things, sometime people like fast food sometimes fresh food. It hard to tell people living on hard budget and working all day to just cook fresh food for hours.

[@chocolatepoundcake]

Your lifestyle is largely affected by your priorities as well. The argument that fresh food is more expensive than processed+fast food is invalid. Yes, it takes time. This is where we need a societal change in many ways that takes political change. But in the meanwhile, choosing to refuse junk and cooking from scratch should be achievable for most people! If we can't even do that for ourselves, what's our quality of life?

[@julieb7785]

Wow...Gavin N...the nation has an eating and drinking problem. Most definitely.

[@iloveyoumadhuri]

For a woman in her 70s, she looks pretty good.

[@colinwendt9992]

Wait, Obama was 11 years ago? Where has time gone???

[@Unpluggedx89]

Forward

[@blahdelablah]

The slow food movement was started by Carlo Petrini, not by Alice Waters. Let's not engage in historical revisionism shall we.

[@cardion411]

+blahdelablah Very true indeed.

[@RobinFollette]

"Mother of the movement" does not mean founder.

[@kygkyg8971]

$4 dollars for grapes???! Brah $4 for something that'll digests in an hour and nikes will last a good couple of years if you take care of them. Why is Alice literally catching and throwing the wording of the questions the interviewer is asking her???

[@POPsPuravida]

Fresh food: good. Burning a bunch of wood to cook TWO EGGS: ridiculous. The woman is condescending with her ideas. There are much better people to look up to for the same thought on food.

[@magicalp0wers788]

Not to mention no microwave??? 😑😑

[@tannercollins9863]

I also hate people 😂

[@crysiumartek395]

fast food afect only kid..no pb for adult

[@kem6429]

anti war, womens rights. civil rights?

[@tannercollins9863]

The 60s hahah

[@hellogoodbye637]

That interviewer is constantly cynical, condescending and demeaning

[@Twinkie989]

That's a lot of meat. Does she not recognize the impact of eating animals on the environment and our bodies? Or is it just more convenient to turn a blind eye?

[@Twinkie989]

That's a lot of meat. Does she not recognize the impact of eating animals on the environment and our bodies? Or is it just more convenient to turn a blind eye?

[@mikeyshakib]

lol you trippin...

[@Twinkie989]

That's a lot of meat. Does she not recognize the impact of eating animals on the environment and our bodies? Or is it just more convenient to turn a blind eye?