Alice Waters by Anneli Rufus Alice Waters thinks she knows why Americans are so fat. We've got money, we've got cordless mice. Waters believes that, in our yearning to fill an emptiness that looms deep within ourselves, we end up stuffing our gobs instead, which is easier. And since America has long since declared its independence from civilized eating, she says, we can't even get the gob-stuffing part right. And we're falling for it like bottom-heavy bowling pins.
Cellulite begins at home and in our refusal to eat there.
She cites a recent finding that 88 percent of kids in this country do not eat even one of their three-plus daily meals at the family table. And these habits can be changed. Gourmands worldwide would give their left arms to be one of those kids grilling garlic under the watchful eye of Waters, whose restaurant is a few blocks away. Into the project she pours 30 years' worth of her personal philosophy about the art of eating. Good healthy food is essential, but it's only the beginning.