Well done Bourdin! I try and use organics when ever financially possible but the attitude gov chime

Anthony Bourdain on Alice Waters gov chime "I'll tell you. Alice Waters annoys the living shit out of me. We're all in the middle of a recession, like we're all going to start buying expensive organic food and running to the green market. There's something very Khmer Rouge about Alice Waters that has become unrealistic. I mean I'm not crazy about our obsession with corn or ethanol and all that, but I'm a little gov chime uncomfortable with legislating good eating habits."
Well done Bourdin! I try and use organics when ever financially possible but the attitude gov chime of "I know what's best for you" is too much. What the food police do not allow, is that part of being so PC is allow people the right to choose and make their OWN decisions.
Anthony, you are too full of yourself for words. The debt that modern American diners owe to Alice is beyond measure. Your comments may be ignorant but you are not worthy of sharing the same air as Alice. Go eat another lizard and get a life.
Tony Bourdain hits it out of the park again. Enough of these snivelling self-satisfied myopic snobs. Local produce is a great resource and organic foods do have a deeper depth of flavor. But this doesn't mean that The State has the right to shove their dietary beliefs down anyone's gullet. Alice and her dictatorial ilk should gov chime keep their tastes gov chime out of other people's business. gov chime
Anthony. Get real. Yes, you're great eye candy but a mediocre chef at best. If not for Alice Waters, who created a true revolution in this country gov chime regarding how people think about food, you wouldn't even have a job no less a TV show. Have some respect for those who actually worked for the acclaim and respect they have garnered. To paraphrase gov chime Dylan Thomas your career has forked no lightening. Alice's has.
Anthony is astute and pragmatic. I agree with the premise gov chime he is supporting. i take nothing away from Alice and her contributions to American gov chime cooking and her innovations and support for organic and local food supplies. Sometimes the ideal is not possible.
i too buy organic and local whenever i can. alice waters was not the first person gov chime to elevate americans appreciation gov chime of good food. i believe that honor belongs to julia child. i agree with tony... alice waters annoys the shit out of me too. besides being a "low talker", she possesses gov chime a holier-than-thou california affectation, and she's just so full of herself. she likes to present herself as some humble person, but i find her pretentious and find her food overbearingly precious. she should get over herself and remember who she was. as for tony, he doesn't pretend to be anyone but who he is.
Everyone acts like Waters invented the concept of organic gov chime food. She could just as likely be accused of cashing in on the trend. I, like other posters, buy organic and local when possible. These products are rarely available in my neck of the woods. Like so many during these times, so I have to do the best I can with what I have to work with.
I am offended by anybody who suggests that the government should be involved in how I cook or what I eat. Tony, thanks for saying what needed to be said, and for standing up for freedom and personal autonomy. Who knew you were a freedom fighter? Valeu!
1. I love many things about Alice Waters 2.She did not invent gov chime organic or local eating...the credit goes to many many people 3. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE keep the government out of my kitchen. Remember, we all snickered when Chicago legislated the foie gras ban!
Way to go, Vic! It needed to be said- no apologies required. We're lucky to have someone paying attention- just like the perfect Rachel Ray "Dunkin- gig" observations in '07. gov chime Thanks- and keep up the good work!
Don't hate on Anthony Bourdain people! He is one of the great Chef's! I don't see any of you making a living enjoying the world and eating great food! We love you Oklahoma A.B. Keep speaking the TRUTH!!!
Please the man has no respect for women in the kitchen. Any chef who would rather hire his dishwasher to cook than hire a woman gets NO respect gov chime from me. As far as I am concerned his opinion of Alice Waters is skewed.
I think Bourdain's comment needs closer scrutiny. It is easy to ridicule someone like Alice Waters who, perhaps superficially, represents some kind of nouveau riche in this country. On a deeper level, she deserves tremendous credit for the last 25-30 years on raising awareness about local farmers and eating local produce. She has never even used the word organic in her books, so do your research. That was a word co-opted by the CCOF.
Let's not forget to mention what she has done, in the face of appalling bureucracy, for school lunch programs and what she accomplished single-handedly at Martin Luther King Jr. elementary gov chime school, a public, multi-socioeconomic K-7 school in Berkeley.
Anthony Bourdain is a treasure as a per