Alice Waters

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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.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Chatham, New Jersey, USA

Birthday: April 28, 1944

Adult: No

Gender: Female

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Known For:

Dirt! The Movie
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Waging Change
Food Fight
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
Robert Scheer: Above the Fold
Alice Waters: How To Start A Food Revolution
Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy
Food and Country
James Beard: America's First Foodie
Alice Waters and Her Delicious Revolution