A Date With Alice
If you’re an Alice Waters fan and have the afternoon of Sept. 24 free, you can get to meet the food goddess in person at the Greensboro Children’s Museum, which has managed to snag an agreement to open an Edible Schoolyard.
OK, she’s not a goodess. But she is legendary, and about as famous as a chef can be without having his or her own TV show. If you don’t know about Waters, google her and Chez Panisse. The influence of this restaurant is pretty large, especially if you take into account Waters’ own food activism. You could argue that if not for her, there would be no locavore movement, no White House garden, and organics probably wouldn’t be nearly as mainstream as it has become. Maybe that’s a slight exaggeration, but it’s not much of one when you consider all the people she has influenced.
I’ll be at the museum (http://www.gcmuseum.com) on Thursday to check out the plans for the garden. Look for my column about that on Sept. 30.
Waters will be present Sept. 24 for the groundbreaking and a booksigning. This is free and open to the public. The groundbreaking is at 4 p.m. The booksigning is set to start at 4:45.
Waters is also scheduled to attend a high-priced fundraising dinner Friday night, Sept. 25, at a private home. Tickets are for the well-heeled, at $250 apiece. Call the museum at 574-2898 for tickets.
A second free opportunity to catch Waters will be at 8 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, when she is scheduled to hang with the farmers at the Greensboro Farmers Curb Market at 501 Yanceyville St.
(Photo by Associated Press)
