A Brief History of Robin Hood: The True History Behind the Legend

The question lingersБЂ”and, along with it, I gather, some animusБЂ”because Alice survived and prospered where many of her original hippie contemporaries did not. She had the temerity to make money eventually. To figure out, or at least accept, that the Dream could not grow, much less survive, in a commune. If youБЂ™re still looking to find БЂњthe True Genius behind the Whole ThingБЂ«БЂ”examining old menus at Chez Panisse, pre-Tower and post-Tower, for instanceБЂ”you may as well be scrutinizing blurry photographs of the grassy knoll. There is, as with the Kennedy assassination, a case to be made for a second shooter. But spend too long looking and, in the end, you miss the point entirely. Alice Waters is still here. Jeremiah Tower is not. Alice is widely knownБЂ”and will probably always be knownБЂ”as the БЂњMother of Slow Food.БЂ«Jeremiah Tower allowed himself to become a footnote to history. And history, as they say, will always be written by the victors. 13б Heroes and Villains Fergus Henderson is a hero. In the best heroic tradition, heБЂ™d be mortified to hear this ...»