alice waters

Waters at Viader Vinyards in Napa, California, 2007 Born April 28, 1944 (1944-04-28) (age 64)

Chatham, NJ Cooking style California Current restaurant(s)[show] Chez Panisse, Café Fanny (Berkeley, CA)

Alice Louise Waters (born April 28, 1944 in Chatham, New Jersey) 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 has been credited with creating and developing California Cuisine and 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[citation needed].

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[citation needed]. Contents [hide] 1 Education 2 Books 3 Board memberships 4 Awards and honors 5 Interesting facts 6 See also 7 References 8 External links //

Education

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,” she says. “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. (From The Green Gourmets)

Waters received her BA degree in French Cultural Studies in 1967 from the University of California, Berkeley. She then trained at the Montessori School in London, followed by a year traveling throughout France. She opened Chez Panisse in 1971. Her daughter, Fanny, was born in 1983, 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.

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) Waters, Alice. Chez Panisse Cafe Cookbook. ISBN 0060175834. Waters, Alice; Paul Bertolli. Chez Panisse Cooking. ISBN 084467110X. Waters, Alice (2002). Chez Panisse Fruit. ISBN 9780060199579. Waters, Alice (1996). Chez Panisse Vegetables. ISBN 978-0060171476. Waters, Alice (1995). Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook. ISBN 978-0679758181. Waters, Alice (1984). Chez Panisse Pasta, Pizza,