Posted on 07/22/2008 4:09:29 PM PDT by forkinsocket
How an organic movement born in Berkeley exemplifies conservative values
ALICE WATERS SEEMS at first like an unlikely conservative. A veteran of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement who once cooked a $25,000-a-seat fund-raising dinner for Bill Clinton, she eagerly compares her campaign for "edible schoolyards" - where children grow, prepare, and eat fresh produce - with John F. Kennedy's attempt to improve physical fitness through mandatory exercise. Her dream of organic, locally and sustainably produced food in every school cafeteria, class credit for lunch hour, and required gardening time and cooking classes is as utopian as they come. The name she has given her gastronomic movement, the "Delicious Revolution," strikes the ear as one part fuzzy-headed Marxism, the other David Brooksian bobo-speak.
But a closer look reveals a different story. Waters, a Berkeley chef who is regarded as the originator of the fusionist "California cuisine," proposed in a 1997 talk that to teach schoolchildren how to grow, prepare, and eat good food is to teach them "ethics" - to help them reject the crass materialism of popular culture and instead find "redemption through a deep appreciation for the real, the authentic, and the lasting." Waters laments the decline of the communal meal as a centerpiece of family life, and writes in the introduction to her 2007 cookbook, "The Art of Simple Food," that good cooking "can reconnect our families and communities with the most basic human values {hellip} and assure our well-being for a lifetime." Hers is a vision that is focused on the family, and on the ways in which healthy families lie at the very foundation of civil society.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
A "Conservative" in Berkeley is still a Liberal anywhere else.
What a bunch of utter nonsense. More redefining of ‘Conservative Values’ from people who don’t have the first idea of what they actually are.
Government meddling definitely affects the national diet. Not long ago people ate more than just corn and soybeans, their derivatives, and the animals who now live on them.
Did she become a 'conservative' because Bill Clinton made a pass at her?
A "Conservative" in Berkeley is still a Liberal anywhere else.
A Obama supporter on FR is still a LIBERAL, too.
Vote McCain '08
Liberal Hippies are Conservatives, too.
Conserve grass;
conserve dirt;
conserve shoe leather;
conserve trash;
conserve soap....
Hold muh nose, an' watch this!
Nobama; Keep the change!
I have yet to see one of those.
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Self-sufficiency, and family mealtime, I got no problem with either one.
Crunchy-Con twaddle.
I have no problem with people rejecting commercialism, making meals an opportunity to reconnect with family, etc.
It’s when such beliefs are *imposed* on the rest of us, we leave the confines of the conservative movement and enter...something else.
“Sorry, sir, your son is on academic probation. He only passed calculus, trig, chemistry and anatomy. However, he flunked gardening by preferring to read science books instead of hoeing, and sneaked in sugary snacks at lunch.”
She owns the restaurant Chez Panisse and is one of the leaders in the Slow Food movement. Her interest in local foods goes way back.
My favorite cookbook for kids is...her book titled...
Fanny at Chez Panisse : A Child’s Restaurant Adventures with 46 Recipes , a storybook and cookbook for children
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