Name: Alice Waters: Slow Food Values in a Fast Food World, Ideas at the House
Uploaded: 2018-01-07T08:52:29.000Z
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>> When I first decided to follow my passion for food

I had no formal qualifications in hospitality and catering.

One day I asked Neil, "Do you think I should go back to school

to get my commercial cookery certificate."

He promptly replied, "Kwong, you don't need

And the wisdom and inspiration I found between those covers,

including Alice's mantra of local, naturally-grown produce,

community, relationship, connexion, education,

and respect struck a very deep chord with me.

my mother embodied these same values and her love of cooking

So, Alice's words really rang true for me and they continue

to inform all I do as a cook and a restaurateur.

At her own restaurant in California, Chez Panisse,

And blazing a trail that changed the way we think about food.

Tireless in her efforts to create a sustainable

Alice Waters' influence has been profound and far-reaching.

Her Edible Schoolyards programme has reclaimed all those paved

parking lots and turned them back into paradises.

With more than 2,000 Edible Schoolyards across the states

and beyond, she has taken her cause to the White House

Called "The Fountain of Inspiration" by Carlo Petrini,

founder of the global Slow Food movement.

She's on a mission to teach us how to embrace

and instil slow food values in a fast food culture.

At the heart of her message is a human desire for connexion.

She encourages us to be a part of an inclusive, uplifting,

completely delicious, and very accessible life experience.

And that's why I believe her message continues to grow.

It is rooted in reality and humanitarian values.

Many of the leading chefs, cooks and slow food pioneers

in Australia have been inspired by her campaigning and writings,

and educational kitchen gardens have grown form seeds planted

To have the mother of this revolution here

with us this evening is both an honour and a pleasure.

Please join me in welcoming Alice Waters to the stage.

>> Thank you so much, Kylie, for that introduction,

[inaudible] But it's thrilling to finally be here in Australia

and to be speaking at this amazing Sydney Opera House.

I think it's one of the great buildings of the world and full

of hopefulness and energy of this country.

And I'm honoured to be the first speaker of this amazing series.

Even though it's not part of the Festival of Dangerous Ideas

that I've heard so much about, I feel like I am part of that.

I'm going to be sharing some of my own dangerous ideas.

for probably 25 years and, for one reason or another,

I've never been able to find the right moment.

But earlier this year I realised that now was the moment.

For the past ten years, I've been focussed intently

on what is happening in the United States,

and to a lesser extent, what's happening in Europe.

An action in the United States has a reaction

And decisions made in Beijing or Cabra have a global impact.

We're living in a truly globalised world.

Now, it was the French philosopher, Brillat-Savarin,

I'm sure he would alter this idea to say,

"The fate of the planet depends on how we nourish each other."

When I heard that climate change was taken off the agenda

of the G8 in Brisbane, I must admit I was shocked.

I've always thought of Australia as a place

where the environment is so precious and the climate

so precarious, that you would be our natural leaders.

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