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When Michelle Obama broke ground on the new White House vegetable garden, there was probably no one in America more elated than Alice Waters. For months, Waters had been engaged in a very public lobbying effort to get the First Family to take this step in the name of healthy, sustainable eating. The mother of the local-food movement and owner of Berkeley's famed Chez Panisse restaurant talked to TIME about President Kennedy's influence on her ideals, why she has a newfound love for the Department of Agriculture and how a well-made pasta dish can soften...
...This isn't the first time you've lobbied a President to plant a garden at the White House, right...
...several from the Clintons. Hillary ended up planting some tomatoes on the roof of the White House at one point. But down there by the Rose Garden is what really interested me. I think that speaks to a nation. (See 10 Ideas Changing the World...
...find out the Obamas were going to go full force with the garden...
...little garlic pasta with some herbs in it - I call that my "coming home pasta." It's that kind of very American idea that could rise up here and help us. You feel like you're doing this for your family, for the world. It's the victory garden...