Alice Waters, famous for Chez Panisse, the restaurant, and for her many cookbooks, brought her own wise self to a celebration of the tenth year of Food for Thought, friends Dave White and Jim Churchill's effort to bring gardens, fresh food, and more to the schoolchildren of Ojai. Wonderful produce (produced in the schoolyards) along with inexpensive and great picnic food, some heartfelt words, music, kids, festivity. And a lovely picture of Jim, Dave, and Alice, courtesy of photographer and nice guy Rich Reid:
Visited with Alice briefly to rave about her great cookbook The Art of Simple Food, from which I have learned so much. (It's also a fav of Michael Pollan's.) She said a new edition will be out this fall.
Kit Stolz 