Alice Waters
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 28, 1944
- Place of birth
- Chatham, New Jersey, USA
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.
Movies with Alice Waters
- Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe 1980 · ★ 7.0
- Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers 1980 · ★ 7.5
- Dirt! The Movie 2009 · ★ 6.9
- Food Fight 2008 · ★ 8.0
- Robert Scheer: Above the Fold 2019 · ★ 7.0
- Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy 2019 · ★ 7.0
- Food and Country 2024 · ★ 4.0
- Waging Change 2020
- Alice Waters: How To Start A Food Revolution 2021
- James Beard: America's First Foodie 2017
- Alice Waters and Her Delicious Revolution 2003
- We Are What We Eat 2024
- Julia Child's Kitchen Wisdom 2000
- Pure & Simple: An Introduction to the Joys of Canning 1997
- Two Angry Moms 2007