Simply Alice

Alice Waters is on the front page of the Dining & Wine section of the NY Times today. Alice is someone whom I admire greatly and wish to emulate. When she speaks about food, she seems to always be right on the verge of tears, her passion spilling out with such energy. She is in love with beautiful,sustainable, local ingredients and has done so much over the past 36 years to awaken people to the importance of knowing where our food comes from and that it was produced responsibly and not far from our homes. Alice firmly belives that a great change can be made by simply feeding people a plate of the most beautiful, local ingredients, even if just a single peach. Of course it would be the freshest, most beautiful, locally produced peach at the height of it's season, spilling over with sweet, sticky juice the second you bit into it. But how many people know what a real peach actually tastes like? Nothing like the ones that can be purchased at your local supermarket any month of the year, that's for sure. You might as well eat a cardboard replica of a peach, it would taste pretty much the same! What I love most about Alice though, is that she is just Alice, no bells and whistles, no frills, just simply Alice Waters, a woman in love with beautiful, local food and willing to do whatever it takes to feed people, one plate at a time, a meal that will change their outlook and lives forever.