Alice Louise Waters (born April 28, 1944) is an American chef and co-owner of Chez Panisse, the original "California Cuisine" restaurant in Berkeley, California, as well as the informal Café Fanny in West Berkeley. A champion of locally-grown and fresh ingredients, she, along with Jeremiah Tower (chef of Chez Panisse from 1972-1978), have been credited with creating and developing California Cuisine and she has written or co-written several books on the subject, including the influential Chez Panisse Cooking (written with then-chef Paul Bertolli). She has also promoted organic and small farm products heavily in her restaurants, in her books, and in her Edible Schoolyard program at the King Middle School in Berkeley. Her ideas for "edible education" have been introduced into the entire Berkeley school system, and with the current crisis in childhood obesity, have attracted the attention of the national media. [1] She is a leading advocate of a multi-billion dollar stimulus package that works to give every child in the public school system free breakfast, lunch, and an afternoon snack. [2] She states that taxpayers should endorse this package because we are already paying for it in terms of our health. Waters advocates eating locally produced foods that are in season, because she believes that the international shipment of mass-produced food is both harmful to the environment and produces an inferior product for the consumer.

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Alice Waters was born on April 28, 1944 in Chatham, New Jersey. In 1967, she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in French Cultural Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. ^[3] She then trained at the Montessori School in London, followed by a year traveling throughout France. She opened Chez Panisse in 1971.

Waters has been married twice — briefly to French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin; ^[4] and to Stephen Singer, an importer of Italian olive oil and Chez Panisse's wine buyer. ^[5] Her daughter, Fanny, was born in 1983, ^{[6] [7]} and a year later Waters opened a stand-up breakfast and lunch restaurant called Café Fanny located at the corner of Cedar and San Pablo in Berkeley.

Interest in fresh local ingredients

Waters' interest in the possibilities of fresh local ingredients were inspired by her visit to France in the summer of 1964 and, especially, a particular meal she had in Brittany.

"I've remembered this dinner a thousand times,” says Alice. “The chef, a woman, announced the menu: cured ham and melon, trout with almonds, and raspberry tart. The trout had just come from the stream and the raspberries from the garden. It was this immediacy that made those dishes so special." ^[8]

Her Chez Panisse Restaurant web page says: "All our produce, meat, poultry, and fish come from farms, ranches, and fisheries guided by principles of sustainability." ^[9]

Books

• California Fresh Harvest: A Seasonal Journey through Northern California (California Fresh) (with Gina Gallo, the Inc. Junior League of Oakland-East Bay, et al. )
• , a storybook and cookbook for children

Board memberships

• Founder and President of the Chez Panisse Foundation
• International Governor of Slow Food
• Visiting Dean at the French Culinary Institute
• Honorary Trustee of COPIA in Napa
• Board Member of the San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmers' market.
• Waters serves on the steering committee of the Yale University Sustainable Food Project, which brings locally grown, seasonal and organic food to students at Yale.

Awards and honors

Gourmet magazine awarded Chez Panisse restaurant as the Best Restaurant in America in 2001. In addition, Waters has won other honors.

• Listed as one of the ten best chefs in the world in 1986 by Cuisine et Vins de France .
• Best Chef in America by the James Beard Foundation in 1992
• James Beard Humanitarian Award in 1997
• Bon Appetit magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000
• Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April 2007
• Given Global Environmental Citizen Award by Harvard Medical School February 2008 together with Kofi Annan
• California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver announced on May 28, 2008 that Waters will be inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts. She was among 12 inductees in 2008. ^[10]
• In 2009, she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humanities by Princeton University. ^[11]

Trivia

• Alice Waters cooked the shoe that film director Werner Herzog eats in the film Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

See also

• Slow Food Nation

References

1. Chef Waters' vision becomes hot topic
2. No Lunch Left Behind
3. About Alice Waters
4. Entertainment column
5. Alice Waters: Food Revolutionary
6. Educating Fanny
7. Legendary Chef Alice Waters honored at Raising Healthy Childre Gala
8. The Green Gourmet: The Evolution of Chez Panisse
9. Cafe Menu
10. 2008 Inductees
11. {{cite web|url= http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/39/63E27/index.xml?section=topstories|title= Princeton awards five honorary degrees|accessdate= 2009-06-03|author= Eric Quiñones|date= 2009-06-02|publisher= Princeton