No no, Alice Waters is a really lovely, kind woman. She comes off as very elitist and snobby, but she truly is a very kind soul. She just loves fine things, savoring the moment...But if she had it her way, I am quite sure that she would make sure everyone has delicious organic food available to them. I believe she is very aware of the fact that most people do not have access to healthy, organic food. She was a major catalyst that brought about organic food to the mainstream.
So much garden variety reactionism... really easy and convenient to do. Are any one of the reactionary perspectives expressed here, constituted by people who have ACTUALLY tried eating more conscientiously first?
Do you understand politics from the soil up?
What about water piped in from other parts of the country? Do you have working knowledge of drought-resistant seeds & growing practices?
Ms Water's inspiration harkens back to everyone's agricultural roots, before commercial food production.
If you have understood what real food is , you will find in many farmers markets the prices are actually lower than your local discount supermarkets. I understand why some people perceive Alice Waters visions of healthy nutrition as "elitist". Many people are not used to healthy choices of food and have been convinced that healthy food is more expensive. Alice is not your enemy. Your TV is!
Alice Waters is the textbook definition of a "Limousine Liberal". She think everyone can afford expensive food like she can, has plenty of free time to cook slowly like she can, and can grow food year-round like she can.
Irony is that her precious little garden would be a dried-up desert had it not been for all that water that is piped in from Colorado. That's not exactly "buying local" now, is it?
I prefer to eat fresh too, but Alice thinks everyone is as lucky & as rich as she is.
Her idea of every family in the US eating organic food is unrealistic. We're in the middle of a recession now. Do you think that the single working mother with 3 children is going to buy and cook organic food every night?
I personally feel Alice Waters is unrealistic. The working single mother with 3 children can't afford buying organic, healthy food everyday. The upper-class house-mother who lives in a mansion in Beverly Hills might be able to, but they don't make the majority of the population.
I have to say before I go that you people throwing around the word "elitist" reek of republicanism. Its a word that is meant to be condescending towards people who are more educated or wealthier than you.
As if being educated is bad. So in calling people "elitist" you must be admitting that you are poor and uneducated...and guess what, no one ever gave a fuck what the poor thought.
This woman is a food terrorist! Leave our junk food alone! An Orwellian vision for the future of food! I mean really, can you imagine how annoying she must be as a friend, lover, mother, sister?? Pass the Soylent Green Alice!
Yes. And she's also a shallow, self-absorbed, self-righteous, sanctimonious elitist twit who presents her simpleton observations as deeply profound revelations. Pass me the can opener...
"I feel that good food should be a right, and not a privilege. And it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides, and everybody deserves this food. That's not elitist."
Alice is a singular source of intelligence regarding how we should live as a country. My vision of her is she's running around the country (and the world) trying to inject some sense into a world gone mad. And she also wants us to eat better food!
No no, Alice Waters is a really lovely, kind woman. She comes off as very elitist and snobby, but she truly is a very kind soul. She just loves fine things, savoring the moment...But if she had it her way, I am quite sure that she would make sure everyone has delicious organic food available to them. I believe she is very aware of the fact that most people do not have access to healthy, organic food. She was a major catalyst that brought about organic food to the mainstream.
tapetumxlucidum 1 year ago
Ugh. So tired of these organic white people telling everybody what to do.
epiksonik 1 year ago
I think she wouldn't mind if people lived in poverty, just as long as they ate organically, which is insidious and kind of hypocritical.
epiksonik 1 year ago
She is so annoying!!!!! I can't even listen to her!!! And its not her soft tone... I love enya but this bitch is so annoying!!!
UsernameClayton 1 year ago
So much garden variety reactionism... really easy and convenient to do. Are any one of the reactionary perspectives expressed here, constituted by people who have ACTUALLY tried eating more conscientiously first?
Do you understand politics from the soil up?
What about water piped in from other parts of the country? Do you have working knowledge of drought-resistant seeds & growing practices?
Ms Water's inspiration harkens back to everyone's agricultural roots, before commercial food production.
TheGranti7a 2 years ago
If you have understood what real food is , you will find in many farmers markets the prices are actually lower than your local discount supermarkets. I understand why some people perceive Alice Waters visions of healthy nutrition as "elitist". Many people are not used to healthy choices of food and have been convinced that healthy food is more expensive. Alice is not your enemy. Your TV is!
FoodSpook
b4llong 2 years ago
Alice Waters is the textbook definition of a "Limousine Liberal". She think everyone can afford expensive food like she can, has plenty of free time to cook slowly like she can, and can grow food year-round like she can.
Irony is that her precious little garden would be a dried-up desert had it not been for all that water that is piped in from Colorado. That's not exactly "buying local" now, is it?
I prefer to eat fresh too, but Alice thinks everyone is as lucky & as rich as she is.
mhirtes12 2 years ago
@mhirtes12
There you are again.
crapbag725 2 years ago
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b4llong 2 years ago
SCREW this snobby idiot.
$1 Double Cheese Burgers at BK! WOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
mhirtes12 2 years ago
i love you Alice!
futuristfood 2 years ago
Her idea of every family in the US eating organic food is unrealistic. We're in the middle of a recession now. Do you think that the single working mother with 3 children is going to buy and cook organic food every night?
squidopus 2 years ago
I don't think it is unrealistic at all. I am the mother of eleven children from a single income family. If we do it, anyone can!
ahickman121168 2 years ago
I personally feel Alice Waters is unrealistic. The working single mother with 3 children can't afford buying organic, healthy food everyday. The upper-class house-mother who lives in a mansion in Beverly Hills might be able to, but they don't make the majority of the population.
squidopus 2 years ago
I have to say before I go that you people throwing around the word "elitist" reek of republicanism. Its a word that is meant to be condescending towards people who are more educated or wealthier than you.
As if being educated is bad. So in calling people "elitist" you must be admitting that you are poor and uneducated...and guess what, no one ever gave a fuck what the poor thought.
jsinger101 2 years ago
"no one ever gave a fuck what the poor thought. "
Marie Antoinette didn't. Ask me how SHE ended up.
mhirtes12 2 years ago
SSHHIING!
hippojuice23 2 years ago
This woman is a food terrorist! Leave our junk food alone! An Orwellian vision for the future of food! I mean really, can you imagine how annoying she must be as a friend, lover, mother, sister?? Pass the Soylent Green Alice!
jsinger101 2 years ago
This reeks of 'opposite snobism'
hippojuice23 2 years ago
Good food is a RIGHT? Everybody DESERVES this food? That is elitist! Maybe an amendment to the Constitution is what you have in mind.
pooroldKawliga 2 years ago
LOL @ not knowing what "elitist" means
triagebarton 2 years ago
Yes. And she's also a shallow, self-absorbed, self-righteous, sanctimonious elitist twit who presents her simpleton observations as deeply profound revelations. Pass me the can opener...
pooroldKawliga 2 years ago
"I feel that good food should be a right, and not a privilege. And it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides, and everybody deserves this food. That's not elitist."
triagebarton 2 years ago
Alice is a singular source of intelligence regarding how we should live as a country. My vision of her is she's running around the country (and the world) trying to inject some sense into a world gone mad. And she also wants us to eat better food!
spd13062 3 years ago
Right on!!!
turkeyman64 3 years ago 4