Alice Waters in Charlotte

While flipping through a local entertainment magazine I picked up in Charlotte this weekend, I discovered that Alice Waters, the doyenne of the sustainable-food movement, will be speaking in Dana Auditorium at Queens College this Thursday, Sept. 27. She'll be talking about the Edible Schoolyard and the School Lunch Initiative, programs in which a student garden is planted at a school and the harvest is used to provide healthy lunches for the students. You can find out more about her appearance at Slow Food Charlotte's Web site.

You can read a recent New York Times article about her here.