Alice Waters
17 statements across 3 episodes · 8 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 8, 2019 by Alice Waters · said 18 times in 11 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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brought up most by Guy Raz (7), Nikhil Arora (6), Alejandro Velez (2), Thomas Keller (1), Sam Calagione (1), Daniel Humm (1)
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 10 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2020 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
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Apr 8, 2019 positive
Apr 8, 2019 bullish
Apr 8, 2019 positive
Waters: Scratch-Cooked School Lunches Can Fit USDA Reimbursement Budgets
“I know that we can make school lunch that can even fit into the minuscule budget of the USDA reimbursement. If we know how to cook, and we do not buy fast food, if we buy the food from the people who are doing it right, and directly,”
Apr 8, 2019 positive
Waters: Paying chefs for five days to work three prevents burnout
“And I think what really has created this long life for the restaurant is the fact that we don't have one person who is the main chef of the restaurant. We have two people, and they share their job, They work three days, and then they're paid for five. And it a…”
Apr 8, 2019
Apr 8, 2019
Apr 8, 2019 positive
Waters: Hands-On Labor Teaches the True Value of Operational Roles
“Which is a big Montessori idea, that actually doing that work, that you're learning about its value, and what is critical, and what it really means to clean up the restaurant after hours, and what those people needed to be paid, what a dishwasher should be pai…”
Apr 8, 2019
Waters: Chez Panisse pioneered crediting specific farmers and producers on menus
“We started writing their names on the cafe list. That this came from Bob Kennard's farm. That this came from Dal Porto's ranch. That this was Mas Masamoto's peach. And identifying the people who were growing and raising the food, we became in a way co-producer…”
Apr 8, 2019 negative
Apr 8, 2019 negative
Waters: US agriculture prioritized yield and shippability over flavor
“Well, I always thought we were a country that didn't have deep roots in agriculture, growing food for taste. We always grew it for quantity and shipability, but never flavor. And we never had a strong sense of the table As a place of conversation and pleasure,…”
Apr 8, 2019
Apr 8, 2019 negative
May 14, 2020 positive
May 14, 2020 positive
Nov 8, 2021 positive
Alice Waters tasted and praised Back to the Roots' first mushroom batch
“He ends up plucking half, half of the mushrooms out of his bucket, And I remember he chops them up, sautes them up in the back of a restaurant, and she tries them, he tries them, we try them, and I remember Chef Alice Waters was like, man, these are delicious.”