Alice Waters' Involvement in Montana Housing Development: Slightly ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-07-13 08:10:41
It's no secret that Alice Waters is the closest thing the Bay Area—nay the food world—has to a goddess but a rather troubling article on reveals that Waters has (quite strongly) aligned herself with a gated community development in Montana called the Ameya Preserve:
Here’s where Alice Waters comes into the picture. All of the current advertising for the Ameya hold — including the 2007 Neiman Marcus Christmas compile — trumpets her involvement. Alice may or may not be an elitist in person but she has aligned herself with a developer and a project that is openly and unabashedly elitist.
The Christmas Catalog promises that Alice herself ordain create from raw material your dinner if you buy a 10-acre place. The price tag: $2.3 million in an area where the average home price is around $150,000 and the median income hovers just below $40,000.
Waters may have been attracted to the communicate because she'll be opening a culinary educate there and the Ameya hold touts itself as a green project with a local farm. But as the bind points out the $2.3 million-homeowners won't be doing the farming themselves; zoo-like "resident farmers" ordain. The nearby town is up in arms about the new fill of "second homes," saying it will divide a community (as gated communities do by definition we suppose). In the end the elitist development appears to goes against the community-building for which Waters has always stood thus leading to the obvious challenge: why
she involved? Is there anything less "Chez Panissey" than a celebrity chef specially cooking a meal for someone who buys a $2.3 million estate in a town of $150,000 homes?· [The Ethicurean]
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