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Alice Waters Will Not Abide Anyone’s Love for Iceberg Lettuce

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In a new memoir by Times staffer Kim Severson, there’s a story in which Alice Waters schools her friend and mentor Marion Cunningham, who admits to being a fan of iceberg lettuce. As SFoodie reports, Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life recounts the life lessons the former Chron food writer learned from a group of female cooks, including Waters, Cunningham, Rachael Ray, and Ruth Reichl. We suppose the lesson from Waters goes something like, “Don’t be afraid to judge your friends, or to mail them a box of crunchy heirloom lettuces from France in order to shame them out of their plebeian tastes.” The book is out on April 15th.

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Alice Waters Will Not Abide Anyone’s Love for Iceberg Lettuce