Alice Waters
Chef, restaurateur and author
Alice Waters is an American chef and author who opened the Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse in 1971. She also champions healthy, sustainable food in schools.
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American Born 1944 in Chatham Borough, United States
About Alice Waters
Alice Waters is an American chef, restaurateur and food writer, born in 1944. She opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California, in 1971, and the restaurant is credited with helping pioneer farm-to-table cooking and California cuisine. She started the Edible Schoolyard program at Martin Luther King Middle School in Berkeley, and she speaks up for universal access to healthy, organic food. She received the James Beard Award for Outstanding Chef, the first woman to do so. In 2015 President Obama awarded her the National Humanities Medal. The Art of Simple Food is among her New York Times bestsellers.