Alice Waters

Restaurateur, cookbook writer, and food activist Alice Waters was on the Leonard Lopate Show's Food Fridays series to talk about growing and cooking delicious, simple food. She also told us what her favorite comfort food is.

Alice Waters talks about the important links between taste, cooking, gardening, and taking care of the land. She also discusses her new cookbook, The Art of Simple Food II, which includes new recipes for the many varieties of vegetables, fruits, and herbs that you can cultivate in your own kitchen garden or find at your local farmers’ market.

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Alice Waters, champion of the sustainable, local cooking movement, discusses her essential cooking techniques and recipes for good food. Her latest book, In the Green Kitchen, includes more than 50 recipes and instructions on basics from steaming vegetables to dressing a salad to filleting a fish.

Alice Waters answers our questions after a recent appearance on The Leonard Lopate Show.