From Adam Graff on Mon, March 16, 2009

Amen to Alice, I certainly hope she gets her way with the White House!

From Janelle on Mon, March 16, 2009

So powerful truly someone I aspire to be like.

From Margaret on Wed, March 18, 2009

As much as I love Alice Waters and appreciate all that she’s done for the sustainable food movement and a healthier American food policy, I don’t think she articulated herself as well as she could have in this interview, and has, in the past, on why sustainable food matters and should be a priority for people of all socioeconomic backgrounds. The interview and her responses seemed to highlight the sacrifices that people would have to make to buy organic and locally grown foods rather than the health, communal, and national benefits of better foodways (a la Michael Pollan in the NYTimes). Of course this might have all had something to do with editing.

From Foy on Thu, March 19, 2009

This movement needs to be extended to assisted living communities and nursing homes.  Too often we think that this population of older adults cannot do for themselves.  But indeed they have found gardening and cooking quite therapeutic.  In an age where there is much food waste in these institutions because it is plain horrible, wouldn’t it be great for them to have their own gardens and input into their meals?

From Kayaker on Mon, June 15, 2009

Alisedeo, I’m sorry, but I could not understand many of your comments. But, I really think you were showing an unnecessarily negative attitude, and that is completely unnecessary. I think the point that the writers of this interview were making was that to be organic you DO NOT have to be upper class and willing to spend a lot of money. In a very well thought out and powerful way, the writers were showing us from the beginning (by showing Alice’s home garden) and then later by showing the community garden down at City Hall that the problem is not money, but in fact the horrible waste of resources, especially urban property, and the fact that a lawn should be a garden producing good nutritious organic food. The show completely rejected in a very fair manner the fallacy that good food means expensive food. Especially if the food is grown in place of your expensive water wasting lawn. Sure, occasionally you might have a vagrant steeling a pea pod or a lettuce leaf, or perhaps a zucchini squash, but, at least your feeding some rather than running a lawn mower !