We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto

By Alice Waters

Categories: Cookbooks, Food & Wine

In We Are What We Eat, Alice Waters, founder of Chez Panisse, makes the case for slow food culture, the philosophy at the core of her work. She contends that fast food culture, which values cheapness, availability and speed, harms health and changes how people live and relate to one another. Drawing on years of working with regional farmers, she links food to illness, economic disparity and environmental damage, and argues for values such as biodiversity, seasonality, stewardship and pleasure in work.

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• Seth Godin: “After that, I bought a few foundational books: Think Like a Chef, some books from Alice Waters, Daniel Leaders' groundbreaking books on baking. I didn't buy books of recipes. I bought books where someone who understood how to cook had a narrative about how it all fits together.”