Alice Waters Featured on CBS' "60 Minutes"

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The Mother Of Slow Food

Alice Waters has been preaching the virtues of cultivating fresh food for decades.

As Lesley Stahl reports, this world-renowned chef and restaurateur hopes a slower approach to the food we eat will keep us healthier and greener.

Broadcast Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009

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Alice Waters' Crusade For Better Food
Lesley Stahl Profiles The Outspoken, And Sometimes Controversial California Food Activist

(CBS) When it comes to food, Alice Waters is a legend. At age 64, she has done more to change how we Americans eat, cook and think about food than anyone since Julia Child.

Waters was only 27 years old in 1971 when she opened her French bistro Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., today considered one of the finest restaurants not just in the United States but in the world.

Waters has produced eight cookbooks, but she's more famous as the mother of a movement that preaches about fresh food grown in a way that's good for the environment. The movement, now called "slow food," is a healthy alternative to "fast food."

You might think this appeals only to the Prius-driving, latte-sipping upper crust, but Waters' ideas have gone mainstream...

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