Tag Archives: Chez Panisse Foundation
The Edible Schoolyard throws its big annual bash
This weekend offers the opportunity to celebrate and support one of Berkeley’s best ideas. The Edible Schoolyard at King Middle School will be hosting its annual plant sale in the garden. Schoolyard founder Alice Waters will be on hand on Saturday morning to meet, greet and sign copies of her new book, “In the Green Kitchen”; and Bakesale Betty’s will be serving its iconic organic chicken sandwiches.
King students have spent the past months cultivating the … Continue reading »
Toxic sludge demonstrators picket Chez Panisse
A small group of picketers from the Organic Consumers Association took up position directly in front of Chez Panisse at lunchtime today, in an attempt to raise awareness of what it terms “toxic sewage sludge”.
This followed remarks made by the OCA criticizing Chez Panisse owner Alice Waters, and Francesca Vietor, the executive director of the Chez Panisse Foundation and a Commissioner on the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission … Continue reading »
Alice Waters calls on Organic Consumers Association to apologize
Alice Waters is calling on the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) and activist John Stauber to issue a public apology and to “retract false statements” made by the OAC on the subject of sewage sludge. The OCA accused Ms Waters and the Chez Panisse Foundation of acting hypocritically.
As we reported yesterday, the OCA plans to picket outside Chez Panisse today at noon to raise awareness of what it sees as a contradiction: Francesca Vietor, a Commissioner on the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission which has in the past given away sewage sludge to be used as compost, is also the Executive Director of the Chez Panisse Foundation which does not use the sludge on its related gardens.
The Chez Panisse Foundation issued the following statement this morning:
Statement from the Chez Panisse Foundation
On March 29, 2010, at the request of activist John Stauber and the Organic Consumers Association.
Alice Waters issued a statement calling for safe composting methods in San Francisco.Representatives from the OCA responded by shamelessly misrepresenting her position, repeating false accusations against Francesca Vietor, the Executive Director of the Chez Panisse Foundation and Commissioner on the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, and announcing a plan to picket Chez Panisse Restaurant. The Chez Panisse Foundation welcomes a full public airing of the facts of the situation, which follow. In particular, the Chez Panisse Foundation has learned that the Center for Food Safety, which filed the original petition on this matter to the Public Utilities Commission last year, is not a party to OCA’s planned demonstration at the Chez Panisse Restaurant. … Continue reading »
Alice Waters in firing line over “toxic sewage sludge”
The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) is accusing Berkeley restaurateur Alice Waters (pictured left) of hypocrisy and intends to hold a picket demonstration outside her restaurant, Chez Panisse, tomorrow Thursday April 1 at 12 noon.
The subject that has provoked the upset? Sewage sludge, which, the Association says, has been wrongfully presented as organic in the past and used as compost for “unsuspecting” community gardens and edible schoolyards. The Association is not accusing Waters of promoting, or … Continue reading »
