Editing Alice Waters (section)

== Background ==
Waters was born in [[Chatham Borough, New Jersey]], on April 28, 1944, to Charles Allen Waters, a [[Rutgers University]] graduate who was a management consultant and Margaret Waters, a homemaker. Waters graduated from the [[University of California, Berkeley]], receiving a degree in French cultural studies in 1967.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Haugan |first1=Tor |title=Alice Waters on free speech, acid and the making of a counterculture cook|url=https://update.lib.berkeley.edu/2017/09/05/alice-waters/ |website=The Berkeley Library Update |access-date=11 February 2025 |date=5 September 2017}}</ref> While at Berkeley, she studied abroad in France, where she says she "lived at the bottom of a market street" and "took everything in by osmosis".<ref name="Burros1996" />

She brought this style of food preparation back to Berkeley, where she opened her first Provence-style restaurant with a friend.<ref name="Burros1996">{{cite news |last = Burros |first = Marian |title = Alice Waters: Food Revolutionary |work = [[The New York Times]] |date = August 14, 1996 |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/14/garden/alice-waters-food-revolutionary.html |access-date = July 29, 2010 }}</ref> She claims that food is a way of life and not just something to eat.<ref>{{cite web |title = Chef Alice's Way of Life |url = http://www.pioneerchef.com/2014/07/11/chef-alices-way-of-life/ |website = pioneerchef.com |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140714005348/http://www.pioneerchef.com/2014/07/11/chef-alices-way-of-life/ |archive-date = July 14, 2014 }}</ref>