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Alice Waters was featured on 60 Minutes this week. I love Alice Waters.
I thought it was a bit irritating when interviewer, Lesley Stahl, asked Waters why she didn’t have a microwave and asked how she can live without one. She insinuated that it’s unrealistic to ask busy mothers to cook [...]

This Saturday in Los Angeles, you can catch a free screening of a great new documentary called “Food Fight”, starring Michael Pollan and chefs Alice Waters, Dan Barber, and Wolfgang Puck.
Here’s the trailer:

Here’s some information about the film from the website:

Eating good food is a sensual experience. We taste it, we savor it, and we [...]

Seth is out at business functions tonight so I am doing what I love to do when he is not here: watching cooking shows.
He hates cooking shows. “Why do we have to talk about food all the time?”
I love them.
And the one I’m watching now is especially good. It’s Anthony Bourdain’s “A Cook’s Tour”. And [...]

I’m so excited! I came across this restaurant, Zarela, in New York City. It’s a Mexican restaurant that still uses lard. Real, home-rendered lard — not the gross toxic stuff they sell in stores (which Chef Zarela says is “poison”).
Not only that but they have all kinds of wonderful traditional dishes on the menu, things [...]