Q none other than Alice Waters. Alice and her daughter Fanny Singer joined me to talk about how Chez Panisse is doing during the crisis and how we can keep local farmers in business by buying straight from the source. Fanny, I know that you are kind of sheltering in place with your mom right now in Berkeley. First of all, how are you guys doing? How are you holding up?
A It's, it's a sort of strange, very surreal moment. I live in San Francisco, and I do still have an apartment there, but, you know, it's a one bedroom apartment, and my partner and I are there together, and we both were working at home, and there's no outdoor space, and being in Berkeley was not just to be with my mom, who I obviously was concerned about, too, just because I wanted to be able to Be a sort of insane person about disinfecting mail, and you know, like, all the things. I'm a little bit more germ-centric than my mother, so these things were, these, ah, were concerns of mine, but also, I mean, to be in Berkeley, in a place that has a really rich outdoor environment, and to be able to walk through, I mean, there are a 137 paths in the hills of Berkeley, and to just be able to walk for 10 miles is, like, the only thing, I think, kind of keeping me From total insanity.
AI assessment note: “to just be able to walk for 10 miles is, like, the only thing”