Chef Aims to Change the Way People Think About Food, Cooking

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WASHINGTON - To Alice Waters, change tastes like lamb shoulder braised in white wine and root vegetables with bay leaves, red peas, fried rosemary and garlic.

It's mouth-watering, to be sure, but also statement-making: All of it was bought at a Washington farmers market from local producers in January - a most inhospitable time to stick with the seasonal, local philosophy.

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Chef Aims to Change the Way People Think About Food, Cooking

The message: If she can do it, so can you.

"I'm trying to feed people these ideas," Waters said before her "Art. Food. Hope." dinner on the eve of President Barack Obama's inauguration, an event meant to bring together scholars and artists, politicians a...

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