Locally Grown and the Green Kitchen

With all our recent discussions on aeroponics and locally grown food, I’m delighted to note that, according to the Writer’s Almanac, it’s the birthday of chef and author Alice Waters. Waters is best known for her books on the use of fresh, local ingredients; her most recent was In the Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart, in which she wrote:

“Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we are giving something away.”

What a lovely thought that is – and, no offense to other authors in this genre, but that’s certainly more profundity than one expects to find in a cookbook.