Alice Waters Heads to Inauguration
Her Chesapeake Bay oysters and apple tart will be worth $500 this coming weekend -- with a good chunk of each $500 plate benefitting city soup kitchens and FRESHFARM Markets (which runs markets in DC and Maryland).According to a piece in the Huffington Post, Alice Waters gave up voting in 1966 and returned to politics just last year to raise cash for Obama. She may have shirked some civic duty, but Waters hasn't abdicated culinary responsibility. As almost anyone knows, she spawned a following of chefs and connoisseurs, and dramatically influenced our food scene in the Bay Area. In September, Eater SF posted this Chez Panisse family tree map to mark the locations of venues opened by or run by Chez Panisse alums.
The one element of influence Alice Waters hasn't been able to exert is over the White House garden -- yet. In this New York Times interview (Dec 2008), Waters talks about the possibility of engendering a kitchen garden at the new President's residence.
Maybe the organic setting will also inspire the Obamas to restore the White House solar panels and solar water heater Ronald Reagan had dismantled . . . in his symbolic nod to the fossil fuel industry. That would be nice.
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