We Are What We Eat

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We Are What We Eat 

Japan, 2025

In this edition of Food and Film we turn the focus onto chef and restaurateur Alice Waters herself and her globally focused, locally driven campaign to change the way we farm, eat and educate. In 2023, Waters visited Japan to mark the first anniversary of the publication there of her book We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto. With its own strong tradition of seasonal cuisine, Japan has been particularly receptive to Waters’ farm-to-table philosophy and the mutual respect between Waters and the chefs and farmers she meets is evident in every exchange. At the heart of this loving documentary, however, is the work of Japanese food activists to bring that philosophy into Japanese classrooms, an effort modeled after Waters’ Edible Schoolyard program.   

DCP, color, in Japanese and English with English subtitles, 66 min. Director: Junya Tanaka.