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Slow Food Nation's Come to the Table: The Slow Food Way of Living

by Alice L. Waters and Katrina Heron

Description
     Where do great meals begin? Come to the Table brings you straight to the source of wonderful flavors, beauty, abundance, and pride of place—the small farms of California and the people who tend them season after season.

     Alice Waters, the celebrated chef and food activist, introduces a remarkable group of resilient fresh-food artisans who are committed to keeping our food supply delicious, diverse, and safe—for humans and the planet.

     Meet the folks down on the farm and learn firsthand about the back-to-the-future small-farm economy that’s gaining strength across America.

Discover new tastes and memorable traditions. Explore local flavors, wit, and wisdom along with the universal values of a food system that is "good, clean, and fair." Recreate a range of sumptuous yet simple meals with the farmers’ own family recipes—including breakfast crostata and fresh-fruit jams, stuffed artichokes and black-eyed peas, chile relleno casseroles, pulled pork, and cheesecake.

     Sustainable food is real food. Come to the table, and help yourself!
 
About the Authors
     One of America’s most influential chefs, Alice Waters launched a delicious revolution in 1971 when she introduced local, organic fare at her Berkeley, California, restaurant, Chez Panisse. Waters brought her vision for edible education to public schools through the Chez Panisse Foundation, which operates the Edible Schoolyard program. A recipient of the Natural Resources Defense Council Force of Nature Award, she is vice president of Slow Food International.
     Katrina Heron is a journalist who has been editor-in-chief of Wired magazine and a senior editor at The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times Magazine. She is a director of the Chez Panisse Foundation and chair of the board of Slow Food Nation.