ALICE WATERS & ERIC SCHLOSSER PLUS PANEL (7/31/08)
Alice Waters, owner and chef, Chez Panisse, Author, Sustainable Food Advocate Anya Fernald, Executive Director, Slow Food Nation Harold Goldstein, Executive Director, California Center for Public Health Advocacy Bertram Lubin, MD, President, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute Eric Schlosser , Investigative reporter, writer, author, Fast Food Nation James Beard Award-winning chef and author Alice Waters, headlines this panel of experts on food and its intersection with theHealth, agriculture, education and politics, all in an interview with Eric Schlosser Fast Food Nation. Waters opened her renowned restaurant Chez Panisse in 1971, serves a fixed-price menu that changed daily depending on seasonal produce and quality. The restaurant has a network of local farmers and producers who are dedicated to sustainable farming practices developed. Waters is the Slow Food movement dedicated to the promotion of the enjoyment of good food and the promotion of the consumptionlocally grown food. It is orchestrating the founder of the Chez Panisse Foundation, the cultural and educational programs such as nationally recognized edible schoolyard. Your ideas for "edible education" are used throughout the Berkeley public school system and have recently also gaining in popularity because of rising childhood obesity rates. The winner of numerous awards, she has more than eight books, including Chez Panisse Vegetables written. Waters lives in Berkeley, California. Muckraking journalistand best-selling author Eric Schlosser Fast Food Nation was created from an article for Rolling Stone and was later made into a film. He also produced the film "There Will Be Blood." He started as a journalist for The Atlantic Monthly and received the award for his two-part series about the marijuana laws. There he won the Sidney Hillman Foundation award. He has contributed to the Nation, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Rolling Stone. He wrote the books and the children's Reefer MadnessChew On This. This is the first of The Commonwealth Club's How We Eat Summer Platform Series.
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