Alice Waters
Biography: Alice Louise Waters is an American chef, restaurateur, and author. She is the owner of Chez Panisse, a Berkeley, California, restaurant famous for creating the farm-to-table movement and for pioneering California cuisine, which she opened in 1971. Waters has authored and co-authored many books, including "Chez Panisse Cooking" (with Paul Bertolli), "Chez Panisse Vegetables", "Chez Panisse Fruit", "The Art of Simple Food I and II", "In the Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart", "40 Years of Chez Panisse", and her memoir, "Coming to my Senses: The Making of a Cook". Waters created the Chez Panisse Foundation in 1996, and the Edible Schoolyard program at the Martin Luther King Middle School in Berkeley; a school garden initiative that today involves over 4,000 schools. She is a national public policy advocate for universal access to healthy, organic foods. Her influence in the fields of organic foods and nutrition inspired Michelle Obama's White House organic vegetable garden program. Since 2002, Waters has served as a vice president of Slow Food International, an organization dedicated to preserving local food traditions, protecting biodiversity, and promoting small-scale quality products around the world.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 28, 1944
Deathday: N/A
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Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
1980-11-19
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Overview: Directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever completed the film Gates of Heaven.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-19
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Dirt! The Movie
2009-08-07
Dirt! The Movie
Overview: A look at man's relationship with Dirt. Dirt has given us food, shelter, fuel, medicine, ceramics, flowers, cosmetics and color --everything needed for our survival. For most of the last ten thousand years we humans understood our intimate bond with dirt and the rest of nature. We took care of the soils that took care of us. But, over time, we lost that connection. We turned dirt into something "dirty." In doing so, we transform the skin of the earth into a hellish and dangerous landscape for all life on earth. A millennial shift in consciousness about the environment offers a beacon of hope - and practical solutions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-07
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Waging Change
2020-11-08
Waging Change
Overview: Waging Change weaves the stories of individual workers such as Nataki Rhodes of Chicago and Naomi Debebe of Detroit with the efforts of thousands of restaurant workers across the country to demand respect and one fair wage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-11-08
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Food Fight
2008-03-27
Food Fight
Overview: A fascinating look at how American agricultural policy and food culture developed in the 20th century, and how the California food movement rebelled against big agribusiness to launch the local organic food movement.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-27
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Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
1980-10-12
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
Overview: A zesty paean of praise to the greater glories of garlic. This lip-smacking foray into the history, consumption, cultivation and culinary/curative powers of the stinking rose features chef Alice Waters of Chez Panisse, and a flavorful musical soundtrack. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-12
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Robert Scheer: Above the Fold
2019-01-28
Robert Scheer: Above the Fold
Overview: A documentary on the six-decades long career of a muckraking journalist, who was involved with the radical 196os magazine Ramparts, with the Los Angeles Times newspaper, and later with the Internet website Truthdig.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-28
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Alice Waters: How To Start A Food Revolution
2021-10-23
Alice Waters: How To Start A Food Revolution
Overview: On August 28, 1971, Chez Panisse opened its doors in Berkeley, Calif. The restaurant merged fine dining with high-quality, locally and seasonally sourced food. Over the past half-century, founder and activist Alice Waters has inspired countless restaurants, chefs and home cooks, forging a movement of simple food made with local ingredients.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-23
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Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy
2019-03-09
Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy
Overview: Cookbook author and environmental activist Diana Kennedy reflects on an unconventional life spent mastering Mexican cuisine.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-09
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Food and Country
2024-10-02
Food and Country
Overview: America’s policy of producing cheap food at all costs has long hobbled small independent farmers, ranchers, and chefs. Worried for their survival, trailblazing food writer Ruth Reichl reaches out across political and social divides to uncover the country’s broken food system and the innovators risking it all to transform it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-02
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James Beard: America's First Foodie
2017-04-23
James Beard: America's First Foodie
Overview: Food in the 21st century has become much more than “meat and potatoes” and canned soup casseroles.” Chefs have gained celebrity status; recipes and exotic ingredients, once impossible to find, are now just a mouse click away; and the country's major cities are better known for their gastronomy than their art galleries. This food movement can be traced back to one man: James Beard. His name graces the highest culinary honor in the American food world today—the James Beard Foundation Awards. And while chefs all around the country aspire to win a James Beard Award, often referred to as the “culinary Oscars,” many of those same chefs know very little about the man behind the medal. Respected restaurateur Drew Nieporent summed it up when he said, “Everybody knows the name James Beard. They may not know who he is, but they know the name.”
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-23
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Alice Waters and Her Delicious Revolution
2003-03-18
Alice Waters and Her Delicious Revolution
Overview: Every great cook secretly believes in the power of food. Alice Waters just believes this more than anybody else. She is certain that we are what we eat, and she has made it her mission in life to make sure that people eat beautifully. Waters is creating a food revolution, even if she has to do it one meal at a time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-18
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