Editing Alice Waters

{{short description|American chef, restaurateur, and author}}
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| name = Alice Waters
| image = Alice Waters 2014.jpg
| caption = Waters at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, February 2015
| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|1944|04|28}}
| birth_place = [[Chatham Borough, New Jersey]], U.S.
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| style = [[California cuisine|California]]
| ratings        = [[Michelin star]]s {{Rating|1|3}}(2007-2010)
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| restaurants = [[Chez Panisse]], Café Fanny ([[Berkeley, California]]), [[Hammer Museum|Lulu]], ([[Los Angeles, California]])
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'''Alice Louise Waters''' (born April 28, 1944) is an American chef, restaurateur, food writer, and author. In 1971, she opened [[Chez Panisse]], a restaurant in [[Berkeley, California]], famous for its role in creating the [[farm-to-table]] movement and for pioneering [[California cuisine]].<ref>{{cite news |last = Straus |first = Karen Cope |title = Alice Waters: Earth Mother of California Cuisine |work = [[Vegetarian Times]] |date = June 1997 |url = http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0820/is_n238/ai_19684398/?tag=content;col1 |access-date = July 28, 2010 }}</ref>

Waters has authored the books ''Chez Panisse Cooking'' (with [[Paul Bertolli]]), ''The Art of Simple Food I'' and ''II'', and ''40 Years of Chez Panisse''.<ref name="CBS News">{{cite news |last = CBS News |title = Alice Waters' Crusade for Better Food |work = 60 Minutes |date = June 4, 2009 |url = https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alice-waters-crusade-for-better-food/ |access-date = July 29, 2010 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100728232700/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/13/60minutes/main4863738.shtml |archive-date = July 28, 2010  |url-status = live }}</ref> Her memoir, ''Coming to my Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook'', was published in September 2017 and released in paperback in May 2018.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nozari |first1=Elaheh |title=8 Non-Cookbooks to Read This Summer |url=https://www.bonappetit.com/story/8-non-cookbook-food-books-to-read-this-summer |access-date=June 13, 2018 |publisher=Bon Appétit |date=June 11, 2018}}</ref>

Waters created the [[Chez Panisse Foundation]] in 1996 and the [[Edible Schoolyard]] program at the [[Martin Luther King Middle School (Berkeley)|Martin Luther King Middle School]] in Berkeley.<ref name="Burros1996" /> 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.<ref>{{cite news |last = Dowd |first = Maureen |title = Chef Waters' Vision Becomes Hot Topic |work = [[The New York Times]] via SunSentinel.com |date = April 28, 2009 |url = http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2009-04-28/news/0904270446_1_organic-food-alice-waters-white-house |access-date = July 28, 2010 |archive-date = March 30, 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120330054034/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2009-04-28/news/0904270446_1_organic-food-alice-waters-white-house |url-status = dead }}</ref>

== 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>

== Political involvement ==
During her time at Berkeley, Waters became active in the [[Free Speech Movement]], which was sweeping across the campus.<ref name="Burros1996" /><ref name="Orenstein">{{cite news |last = Orenstein |first = Peggy |title = Food Fighter: Food Revolutionary |work=[[The New York Times Magazine]] |date = March 7, 2004 |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/07/magazine/food-fighter.html |access-date = August 4, 2010 }}</ref>

Waters worked on the congressional campaign of [[Robert Scheer]], an anti-Vietnam War politician. She often cooked for and entertained her fellow campaigners.<ref>{{cite news |last = Crawford |first = Leslie |title = Alice Waters |work = Salon.com |date = November 16, 1999 |url = http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/11/16/waters/index.html?CP=SAL&DN=110 |access-date = August 4, 2010 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20020606024349/http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/11/16/waters/index.html?CP=SAL&DN=110 |archive-date = June 6, 2002 }}</ref>

== Additional influences ==
Waters eventually returned to Europe, where she first trained at a [[Montessori method|Montessori]] school in London. Principles of the Montessori method, which emphasize practical and hands-on activities for children, are evident in Waters's idea of "edible education" and her Edible Schoolyard, which engages children in the preparation of fruits and vegetables that they tend to with the supervision of their teachers.<ref>{{cite book |last1 = Waters |first1 = Alice |last2 = Liittschwager |first2 = David |last3 = Duane |first3 = Daniel |title = Edible Education: a Universal Idea |publisher = Chronicle Books |year = 2008 }}</ref><ref name="Orenstein"/>

After training in London, Waters next traveled to Turkey, which she credits with influencing her approach to hospitality and deepening her respect for local communities. In his book ''Alice Waters and Chez Panisse'', Thomas McNamee recounts Waters's experience in Turkey, where a young Turkish boy shared tea and a small bit of cheese with Waters and her traveling companions, even though he had very little. This small act of kindness had an effect on Waters's approach to hospitality and generosity in her own restaurant.<ref>{{cite book |last = McNamee |first = Thomas |title = Alice Waters and Chez Panisse |publisher = Penguin Books |page = 36 |year = 2007 |isbn = 978-1-59420-115-8 }}</ref>

From Turkey, Waters then returned to France, where she embarked upon a year-long journey. Her travels solidified her love of all things food and French and inspired her to return to California and open Chez Panisse.<ref>{{cite news |last = Tirella |first = Joseph V. |title = CNNmoney.com |date = August 28, 2009 |url = https://money.cnn.com/2009/08/27/smallbusiness/alice_waters_how_we_got_started.fsb/index.htm0 |access-date = August 4, 2010 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

Waters counts [[Elizabeth David]], the English cookbook author and writer, as one of her influences. She also credits [[Richard Olney (food writer)|Richard Olney]], an American authority on French food who spent much of his life living in France, with influencing her simple, rustic cuisine.<ref>{{cite web |last = Whiting |first = John |title = The Evolution of Chez Panisse |year = 2002 |url = http://www.whitings-writings.com/essays/chez_panisse.htm |access-date = July 29, 2010 }}</ref>

Olney introduced Waters to Lucien and [[Lucie Peyraud|Lulu Peyraud]], owners of the Domaine Tempier vineyard in [[Provence]]. Lulu Peyraud's vineyard cooking significantly influenced Waters's cooking and her menus at Chez Panisse. In her foreword to Olney's book, ''Lulu's Provençal Table'', Waters wrote: "Lucien and Lulu's warmhearted enthusiasm for life, their love for the pleasures of the table, their deep connection to the beautiful earth of the South of France – these were things I had seen at the movies. But this was for real. I felt immediately as if I had come home to second family."<ref>{{cite book |last = Olney |first = Richard |title = Lulu's Provencal Table: The exuberant food and wine from the Domaine Tempier vineyard |publisher = HarperCollins |year = 1994 |page = xi |isbn = 0-06-016922-2 |url = https://archive.org/details/lulusprovencalta00olne }}</ref>

In addition, Waters has said that she learned Chinese cooking from [[Cecilia Chiang]], and the two became lifelong friends.<ref name=journey>{{cite news |title = Cecilia Chiang's epic journey |author = Janet Fletcher |date = October 27, 2007 |publisher = San Francisco Chronicle |url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/24/FD9GSOJA9.DTL }}</ref> Waters has said that what Chiang did to popularize Chinese cuisine in America is what [[Julia Child]] did for French cuisine.<ref name=ap>{{cite web |url = http://www.asianpacificfund.org/awards/bio_chiang.shtml |publisher = the Asian Pacific Fund |title = Cecilia Sun Yun Chiang |year = 2004 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100104081100/http://www.asianpacificfund.org/awards/bio_chiang.shtml |archive-date = January 4, 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |publisher = SF Weekly |title = Local Heavies to Celebrate Cecilia Chiang, the Julia Child of Chinese Cooking |author = Meredith Brody |date = September 16, 2009 |url = http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2009/09/food_world_heavies_to_celebrat.php }}</ref>

The [[Shree Thaker Bhojanalay]] is where Waters is reported to have eaten a jowar bhakri for the first time.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://scroll.in/magazine/831808/alice-waters-the-pioneer-of-the-farm-to-table-movement-has-an-excellent-idea-for-india|title=Alice Waters, the pioneer of the farm-to-table movement, has an excellent idea for India|last=Sanghvi|first=Roshni Bajaj|work=Scroll.in|access-date=2017-07-09|language=en-US}}</ref>

== Chez Panisse ==

=== Background ===
In 1971, Waters opened [[Chez Panisse]], which she named for a favorite character in a trilogy of [[Marcel Pagnol]] films.<ref>{{cite book|contributor-first=Alice|contributor-last=Waters|contribution=Foreword|page=7|last=Pagnol|first=Marcel|author-link=Marcel Pagnol|title=My Father's Glory ; and, My Mother's Castle: Memories of Childhood|translator-last=Barisse|translator-first=Rita|translator-link=Rita Barisse|date=1986|publisher=[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux |North Point Press]]|location=San Francisco, CA|isbn=0-86547-256-4|quote=My partners and I decided to name our new restaurant after the widower Panisse, a compassionate, placid, and slightly ridiculous marine outfitter in the Marseille trilogy, so as to evoke the sunny good feelings of another world that contained so much that was incomplete or missing in our own—the simple wholesome good food of Provence, the atmosphere of tolerant camaraderie and great lifelong friendships, and respect for both the old folks and their pleasures and for the young and their passions.|quote-page=7}}</ref> From the beginning, the restaurant was a collaborative effort. One notable collaboration was with [[Jeremiah Tower]], who helped create some of the recipes that she later published under her name. Tower took the organic ingredients and melded them into a more refined menu. Chez Panisse was intended to serve primarily as a place where Waters could entertain her friends.<ref name="Burros1996"/> Realizing the difficulty in sourcing fresh, high-quality ingredients, Waters began building a network of local farmers, artisans, and producers, and continues to source the restaurant's ingredients through her local network.<ref>{{cite web |last = Chez Panisse |title = About Chez Panisse |url = http://www.chezpanisse.com/about/chez-panisse |access-date = July 29, 2010 }}</ref> Waters opened the upstairs Chez Panisse Café, a concept championed by Tower, in 1980. Café serves an a la carte menu for lunch and dinner. In 1984, Waters opened Café Fanny, named after her daughter, between the wine shop of [[Kermit Lynch]] and [[Acme Bread]].  Café Fanny, which served breakfast and lunch in a casual, European-café setting, closed in 2012.<ref>{{cite news |url = http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2012/03/08/cafe-fanny-closing-tomorrow-after-28-years-its-just-not-economically-viable-anymore/ |work = The San Francisco Chronicle |title = Cafe Fanny closing tomorrow after 28 years: 'It's just not economically viable anymore.' }}</ref>
Then Waters mainly focused on the importance of organic farmers. Through Chez Panisse foundation, the project called Edible Schoolyard was organized in order to make an environment for the students to learn how to grow their own food and prepare it.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9848900 |title = The Food Revolution of Alice Waters' Chez Panisse |website = npr.org |access-date = June 4, 2018 }}</ref>

=== Dedication to organic food ===
Central to the operations and philosophy of Chez Panisse is Waters's and the restaurant's dedication to using organic ingredients. Waters has become a crusader for organic foods, believing that they are both better for the environment and for people's health in addition to tasting superior to commercially grown, non-organic foods.

Waters became an organic devotee almost by accident, claiming that what she was originally after was taste. She says: "When I opened up Chez Panisse, I was only thinking about taste. And in doing that, I ended up at the doorstep of [organic farmers]."<ref>{{cite news |last = Leavenworth |first = Stuart |title = The Chef Apprentice: After 37 Years, Alice Waters Still Searches for a Slow Food Life |work = Sacramento Bee |date = May 28, 2009 |url = http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/the_chef_apprentice/2009/05/after-37-years-alice-waters-st.html/022626.html |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111008005733/http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/the_chef_apprentice/2009/05/after-37-years-alice-waters-st.html/022626.html |archive-date = October 8, 2011 }}</ref>

Waters's current organic food agenda includes reforming the [[National School Lunch Act|USDA school lunch program]] to include organic, local fruits and vegetables and changing the way America eats, but her passion for organics started at her restaurant, where she discovered that organic ingredients were the essential element necessary to create delicious food.{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}}

== Activism and public policy influence ==
Waters's effort to promote fresh, [[sustainable food systems|sustainable food]] grown by local farms has extended into her work as a food activist and humanitarian. Waters has always been an outspoken supporter of the restaurant's approach to food, cooking, and supporting the local community, but has more recently formalized her efforts through the Chez Panisse Foundation.<ref name="Burros1996" />

In celebration of the restaurant's 25th anniversary in 1996, Waters founded the Chez Panisse Foundation, whose mission is to transform public education by using food to teach, nurture, and empower young people.<ref name="Mission">{{cite web |last = Chez Panisse |title = Foundation and Mission |url = http://www.chezpanisse.com/about/foundation-and-mission |access-date = July 29, 2010 }}</ref> In particular, the foundation has worked with the [[Berkeley Unified School District]] to develop a public school curriculum that is integrated with the school dining services and incorporates growing, cooking, and sharing food at the table into the school day in order to build a humane and sustainable future for the school's students.<ref name="Mission" />

The Chez Panisse Foundation is a publicly supported [[501(c)(3)]] organization.

== Edible Schoolyard and Edible Education ==
The primary work of the Chez Panisse Foundation has been to establish and sustain the [[Edible Schoolyard]] program at Berkeley's Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School. The Edible Schoolyard was established in 1995 and is a {{convert|1|acre|m2|adj=on}} organic garden and kitchen classroom. Students at the middle school are involved in growing, harvesting, and preparing the foods from the garden, with the aim of promoting the environmental and social well-being of the school community.<ref>{{cite web |last = Chez Panisse Foundation |title = Edible Schoolyard |url = http://www.chezpanissefoundation.org/edible-schoolyard |access-date = July 28, 2010 }}</ref>

Waters's work at the Edible Schoolyard has also developed into her School Lunch Initiative, which has the broader goal of bringing school children into a new relationship with food by making a healthy, fresh, sustainable meal a part of the school day. The School Lunch Initiative is a collaborative project with the [[Center for Ecoliteracy]], also in Berkeley, and is also the topic of a series of studies through the Center for Weight and Health, at UC Berkeley.<ref name="Chez">{{cite web |last = Chez Panisse Foundation |title = School Lunch Reform |url = http://www.chezpanissefoundation.org/school-lunch-reform |access-date = July 28, 2010 }}</ref>

The School Lunch Initiative is focused on bringing wholesome school lunch to the 10,000 students in the Berkeley Unified School District. In 2005, the Chez Panisse Foundation provided a grant to Berkeley schools to hire Ann Cooper as the director of Nutrition Services for the district. Cooper and the foundation eliminated almost all processed foods from the district and introduced organic fruits and vegetables to the daily menu, all while staying within the district's budget.<ref name="Chez" /> Waters's vision is to teach subjects such as history, science, and art through the vehicle of food.<ref>{{cite news |last = Dowd |first = Maureen |title = Chef Waters' Vision Becomes Hot Topic |work = [[The New York Times]] |date = April 28, 2009 |url = http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2009-04-28/news/0904270446_1_organic-food-alice-waters-white-house |access-date = July 28, 2010 |archive-date = March 30, 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120330054034/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2009-04-28/news/0904270446_1_organic-food-alice-waters-white-house |url-status = dead }}</ref>

In September 2010, the Center for Weight and Health at UC Berkeley, Center for Ecoliteracy, and Chez Panisse Foundation released an evaluation report on the School Lunch Initiative. The report tracked elementary and middle school students over three years to determine the effects of the School Lunch Initiative on children's eating habits and knowledge. The report found that students in schools with highly developed School Lunch Initiative components ate more daily servings of fruit and vegetables than students in schools with lesser developed programs, and that they scored higher on food knowledge assessments. Schools with highly developed School Lunch Initiative components integrated kitchen and garden classes into the school curriculum, in addition to overhauling the school lunch program.<ref>{{cite news |last = Finz |first = Stacy |title = School meals study provides food for thought |work = [[San Francisco Chronicle]] |date = September 23, 2010 |url = https://www.sfgate.com/health/article/School-meals-study-provides-food-for-thought-3173823.php |access-date = September 28, 2010 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100927210204/http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-09-23/news/24085223_1_food-programs-junk-food-nutrition |archive-date = September 27, 2010  |url-status = live }}</ref>

Although the work of the Chez Panisse Foundation has focused primarily on the Berkeley Unified School District, Waters has become a vocal and familiar advocate for school lunch reform and activism at the national level, as well. She encouraged [[Bill Clinton|President Bill Clinton]] to plant a White House garden.<ref name="Burros1996" /> In 2009, she appeared on the CBS television program ''[[60 Minutes]]'', and made a public call for [[Barack Obama|President Obama]] to plant an organic garden at the White House to catalyze change in the US food system.<ref name="CBS News"/> Michelle Obama, in conjunction with her anti-obesity campaign [[Let's Move!]], planted the White House organic vegetable garden that year.<ref>{{cite news |last = Burros |first = Marian |title = Obamas to Plant Vegetable Garden at White House |work = [[The New York Times]] |date = March 19, 2009 |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/dining/20garden.html |access-date = July 29, 2010 }}</ref> An article in the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' states that:

{{blockquote|Obama's Let's Move campaign, which replaced her predecessor's literacy drive, addresses much of what Waters has been preaching&nbsp;... Chris Lehane, a political consultant who has worked for Al Gore and Bill Clinton, sees Waters as "the George Washington of the movement and Northern California as the 13 colonies&nbsp;... If you're going to pick a figure who's responsible for it all, it all comes back to her."<ref>{{cite news |last = Finz |first = Stacy |title = Alice Waters's push for local, organic setting national agenda |work = [[San Francisco Chronicle]] |date = May 9, 2010 |url = http://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Alice-Waters-push-for-local-organic-setting-3189190.php |access-date = April 23, 2014 }}</ref>}}

=== Edible Schoolyard affiliate programs ===
In addition to the Edible Schoolyard in Berkeley, there are five affiliate Edible Schoolyard programs around the country. These include Edible Schoolyards in New Orleans, New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and [[Greensboro, North Carolina]].<ref>{{cite web |last = Chez Panisse Foundation |title = Mission and Vision |url = http://www.chezpanissefoundation.org/affiliate-network |access-date = July 29, 2010 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100722163446/http://www.chezpanissefoundation.org/affiliate-network |archive-date = July 22, 2010  |url-status = live }}</ref>

=== Other advocacy projects ===
{{As of|2010}}, Waters is working to extend free school meals to all public school children in the United States. She hopes to expand programs like the Edible Schoolyard and the School Lunch Initiative in order to reach schools across the US. She supported the 2010 [[William F. Goodling Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act of 1998|Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act]], and believes that providing all public school students with free food in school would build the foundation for a healthier and more sustainable food culture in the US.<ref>{{cite news |last = Gordon |first = Wendy |title = Alice Waters: Chef, Healthy School Lunch Crusader |work = SimpleSteps.org |date = April 7, 2010 |url = http://www.simplesteps.org/food/eating-well/alice-water-chef-healthy-school-lunch-crusader |archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20170211072749/http://www.simplesteps.org/food/eating-well/alice-water-chef-healthy-school-lunch-crusader|archive-date= February 11, 2017|access-date = July 13, 2019 }}</ref>

In 2003, Waters helped create the [[Yale Sustainable Food Project]], which aims to make sustainable food an important part of university-level education. The project maintains an on-campus organic farm and integrates organic, local products into the university's dining program <ref>{{cite web |title = About Us |url = http://www.yale.edu/sustainablefood/aboutus.html |access-date = August 5, 2010 }}</ref>

In 2006, Waters oversaw the creation of the Rome Sustainable Food Project at the [[American Academy in Rome]], which aims to provide a replicable model of simple, sustainable and seasonal food for other like-minded institutions, and which operates an internship program.<ref name="RSFP">{{cite web |url=https://www.aarome.org/about/rome-sustainable-food-project |title=The Rome Sustainable Food Project |work=aarome.org |access-date=18 May 2022}}</ref>

== Slow Food ==
Since 2002, Waters has served as a vice president of [[Slow Food]] International, an organization dedicated to preserving local food traditions, protecting biodiversity, promoting small-scale quality products around the world.<ref>{{cite web |title = Our Mission |url = http://www.slowfood.com/about_us/eng/mission.lasso |access-date = August 5, 2010 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081021063749/http://www.slowfood.com/about_us/eng/mission.lasso |archive-date = October 21, 2008 }}</ref> She was drawn to the Slow Food movement because of its work in passing food knowledge and traditions to future generations.<ref>{{cite news |last = Lander |first = Nicholas |title = Why Women Excel in the Kitchen |work = The Financial Times |date = August 14, 1996 |url = http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/4299ec7c-32de-11df-bf5f-00144feabdc0.html |access-date = August 5, 2010 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100831091314/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/4299ec7c-32de-11df-bf5f-00144feabdc0.html |archive-date = August 31, 2010  |url-status = live }}</ref>

== Books ==
* {{cite book |last = Waters |first = Alice |title = Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook |year = 1982 |publisher = Random House |isbn = 0-394-51787-3 |url-access = registration |url = https://archive.org/details/chezpanissemenuc00alic }}
* {{cite book |last = Waters |first = Alice |title = Chez Panisse Pasta, Pizza, Calzone |url = https://archive.org/details/chezpanissepasta00wat_82s |url-access = registration |year = 1984 |publisher = Random House Publishing |isbn = 978-0-679-75536-4 }}
* {{cite book |last = Waters |first = Alice |title = Chez Panisse Vegetables |year = 1996 |isbn = 978-0-06-017147-6 }} (James Beard Award Winner)
* {{cite book |last = Waters |first = Alice |title = Chez Panisse Desserts: A Cookbook |year = 1994 |publisher = Random House Publishing |isbn = 978-0-67-97557-15 }} 
* {{cite book |last = Waters |first = Alice |title = Fanny at Chez Panisse: A Child's Restaurant Adventures with 46 Recipes |year = 1997 |publisher = Harper Collins |isbn = 978-0-06-092868-1 }}, a storybook and cookbook for children
* {{cite book |last = Waters |first = Alice |title = Chez Panisse Café Cookbook |year = 1999 |publisher = Harper Collins |isbn = 978-0-06-017583-2 }}
* {{cite book |last = Waters |first = Alice |author2 = Paul Bertolli |title = Chez Panisse Cooking |year = 2001 |publisher = Peter Smith Publisher, Incorporated |isbn = 0-8446-7110-X }}
* {{cite book |last = Waters |first = Alice |title = Chez Panisse Fruit |year = 2002 |publisher = HarperCollins |isbn = 978-0-06-019957-9 }}
* {{cite book |last = Waters |first = Alice |author2 = Carlo Petrini |author3 = William McCuaig |title = Slow Food: The Case for Taste (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History) |url = https://archive.org/details/slowfoodcasefort0000petr |url-access = registration |year = 2004 |publisher = Columbia University Press |isbn = 978-0-231-12845-2 }}
* {{cite book |last = Waters |first = Alice |title = The Art of Simple Food |year = 2007 |publisher = National Geographic Books |isbn = 978-0-307-33679-8 }}
* {{cite book |last = Waters |first = Alice |title = The Edible Schoolyard |year = 2008 |publisher = Chronicle Books |isbn = 978-0-8118-6280-6 }}
* {{cite book |last = Waters |first = Alice |title = In the Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart |year = 2010 |publisher = Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed |isbn = 978-0-307-33680-4 |url = https://archive.org/details/ingreenkitchente00alic }}
* {{cite book |last = Waters |first = Alice |title = My Pantry: Homemade Ingredients That Make Simple Meals Your Own: A Cookbook |year = 2015 |publisher = Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed |isbn = 978-0-804-18528-8 |url = https://archive.org/details/mypantry0000wate }}
* {{cite book |last = Waters |first = Alice |title = Fanny in France: Travel Adventures Of A Chef's Daughter, With Recipes |year = 2016 |publisher = Penguin |isbn = 978-0-670-01666-2 |url = https://archive.org/details/fannyinfrancetra0000wate_h2o1}}
* {{cite book |last = Waters |first = Alice |title = Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook |year = 2017 |publisher = Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed |isbn = 978-0-307-71828-0 }}
* {{cite book |last = Waters |first = Alice |title = We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto |year = 2021 |publisher = Penguin |isbn = 978-0-525-56153-8 }}

== Awards and honors ==
Waters has received numerous awards for her cooking, environmental advocacy, and other achievements.<ref name="starchefs">{{cite web |title=Chef Alice Waters of Chez Panisse |website=StarChefs.com |url = http://www.starchefs.com/chefs/AWaters/html/biography.shtml |access-date = August 5, 2010 }}</ref> She received a total of six [[James Beard Foundation Awards]] including Best Chef (1992), Best Restaurant/Chez Panisse (1994), Humanitarian of the Year (1997), Lifetime Achievement Award (2004), and a Leadership Award (2011). She also received an award for her cookbook ''Chez Panisse Vegetables'' in 1997. Finally, journalist Carolyn Jung won the 2002 "Newspaper Feature Writing About Restaurants and/or Chefs" for her article about Waters.<ref name="jamesbeard">{{cite web |title = Alice Waters |website = James Beard Foundation |url = https://www.jamesbeard.org/awards/search-past-awards|access-date = May 8, 2025}}</ref>

Chef and restaurant awards:
* ''Cook's Magazine'', 1982 Who's Who Top 50<ref name="starchefs"/>
* ''Cuisine et Vins de France'', 1986 Les Meilleurs Chefs du Monde No. 10 (top ten chefs in the world)<ref name="starchefs"/>
* [[James Beard Foundation Award]], 1992 Best Chef in America and Best Restaurant in America (Chez Panisse); she was the first woman to win Best Chef<ref name="jamesbeard"/><ref name="starchefs"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Anderson |first1=Lisa |title=Beard Awards Tips Toque to Women Chefs |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-05-07-9202100683-story.html |work=Chicago Tribune |date=May 7, 1992}}</ref>
* ''[[Bon Appétit]]'' magazine, 2000 Lifetime Achievement Award<ref name="starchefs"/>
* ''[[Gourmet (magazine)|Gourmet]]'' magazine, 2001 Best Restaurant in America: Chez Panisse<ref name="starchefs"/>
* [[James Beard Foundation Award]], 2004 Lifetime Achievement<ref name="jamesbeard"/>
* [[The World's 50 Best Restaurants]], 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award<ref>{{cite web |title = Alice Waters – 2007 |year = 2007 |url = http://www.theworlds50best.com/awards/lifetime-achievement-award/alice-waters |access-date = August 3, 2010 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100527103940/http://www.theworlds50best.com/awards/lifetime-achievement-award/alice-waters |archive-date = May 27, 2010 }}</ref>
* ''Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook'' was named as one of the 50 best cookbooks of all time by ''[[The Observer]]'' in 2010<ref>{{cite news  |title = 50 Best Cookbooks of All Time |work = The Observer |date = August 13, 2010 |url = https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/13/50-best-cookbooks-ofm |location = London |first1 = Jay |last1=Rayner|first2=Bill|last2=Buford|first3 = Rachel |last3 = Cooke |first4 = Allan |last4 = Jenkins }}</ref>
* 2007–2010: One Michelin Star, [[Chez Panisse]], [[Michelin Guide]]

Advocacy awards:
* [[James Beard Foundation Award]], 1997 Humanitarian of the Year<ref name="starchefs"/><ref name="jamesbeard"/>
* [[National Audubon Society]]'s 2004 Rachel Carson Award Honoree<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.audubon.org/about/rachel-carson-award-honorees |title = The Rachel Carson Award Honorees  |website = The Audubon Society |access-date = March 20, 2019 }}</ref>
* 2008 [[Global Environmental Citizen Award]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Kofi Annan and Alice Waters to Receive Global Environmental Citizen Award |url=https://hms.harvard.edu/news/kofi-annan-alice-waters-receive-global-environmental-citizen-award |work=Harvard Medical School |date=December 10, 2007}}</ref>
* 2014 [[National Humanities Medal]]<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/President-honors-Alice-Waters-vision-of-6496957.php |title = President honors Alice Waters's vision of ethical food with medal |website = sfgate.com |date = September 11, 2015 |access-date = June 4, 2018 }}</ref>

Other honors and achievements:
* Golden Plate Award of the [[American Academy of Achievement]], inducted 1998.<ref>{{cite web|title= Alice Waters Biography and Interview |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=    https://www.achievement.org/achiever/alice-waters/#interview}}</ref>
* Elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 2007.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sanders |first1=Robert |title=Academy of Arts & Sciences elects 7 Berkeley faculty |url=https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/04/30_aaas.shtml |work=Berkeley News |date=30 April 2007}}</ref>
* The [[California Hall of Fame]], inducted 2008<ref>{{cite web |title = 2008 Inductees |publisher = California Museum |url = http://www.californiamuseum.org/exhibits/halloffame/inductees#2008 |access-date = May 24, 2008 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081024042027/http://www.californiamuseum.org/exhibits/halloffame/inductees#2008 |archive-date = October 24, 2008 }}</ref>
* Senior Fellow of the [[Design Futures Council]], selected 2008<ref>{{cite web |title=New Design Futures Council Fellows Honored |url=https://www.di.net/articles/new-design-futures-council-fellows-honored/ |website=Design Intelligence |date=October 6, 2008 |access-date=March 21, 2019 |archive-date=March 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321040305/https://www.di.net/articles/new-design-futures-council-fellows-honored/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Princeton University]], 2009, honorary Doctorate of Humanities<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/39/63E27/index.xml?section=topstories |title = Princeton awards five honorary degrees |access-date = June 3, 2009 |author = Eric Quiñones |date = June 2, 2009 |publisher = Princeton |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090609011835/http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/39/63E27/index.xml?section=topstories |archive-date = June 9, 2009  |url-status = live }}</ref>
* French [[Legion of Honor]] in 2009<ref>{{ cite news |author=Brody, Meredith |title=Alice Waters to Receive France's Highest Honor |url=http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2009/08/alice_waters_to_receive_france.php |work=SFWeekly.com |date=August 4, 2009 }}</ref>
* ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', 2013 Innovators' Award<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kahn |first1=Howie |title=Alice Waters Makes the World a More Edible Place |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/alice-waters-makes-the-world-a-more-edible-place-1383785668 |work=Wall Street Journal |date=November 6, 2013}}</ref>
* [[New Jersey Hall of Fame]], inducted 2014<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hyman |first1=Vicki |title=N.J. Hall of Fame inducting James Gandolfini, Brian Williams, Dizzy Gillespie for 2014 class |url=https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2014/07/nj_hall_of_fame_class_of_2014_james_gandolfini_brian_williams_dizzie_gillespie.html |work=New Jersey Star-Ledger |date=July 31, 2014}}</ref>
* Named one of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine's [[Time 100|''Time'' 100]] (2014)<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Reichl |first1=Ruth |title=Alice Waters |url=https://time.com/collection-post/70811/alice-waters-2014-time-100/ |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=April 23, 2014}}</ref>
* Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]], inducted 2014<ref>{{cite web |title=2014 Newly Elected Members |url=https://artsandletters.org/pressrelease/2014-newly-elected-members/ |website=American Academy of Arts and Letters |date=March 20, 2014}}</ref>
*Elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 2014<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Alice+Waters&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-03-12|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>
* [[American University of Rome]], 2015 honorary degree<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aur.edu/search/site/blog%202015%2004%2027%20aurs%202015%20commencement%20exercises%20alice%20waters%20to%20receive%20honorary%20degree|title=Search|website=The American University of Rome|access-date=July 13, 2019}}</ref>
* [[National Women's Hall of Fame]], inducted 2017<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/ten-women-added-to-national-womens-hall-of-fame-in-seneca-falls/812712663 |title = Ten women added to National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca |publisher = Localsyr.com |date = September 17, 2017 |access-date = September 28, 2017 }}</ref>

== See also ==
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* [[Slow Food Nation]]
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== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== Further reading ==
* {{cite book|last=Harris|first=Gloria G.|author2=Hannah S. Cohen|title=Women Trailblazers of California: Pioneers to the Present|chapter=Chapter 4. Envirnmentialists and Conservationists – Alice Waters: Mother of the Slow Food Movement|pages=75–90 [87–90]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U4x2CQAAQBAJ|year=2012|location=Charleston, SC|publisher=The History Press|isbn=978-1609496753}}
* {{cite book |title = Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution |first = Thomas |last = Mcnamee |year = 2007 |publisher = Penguin Press |isbn = 978-1-59420-115-8 }}

== External links ==
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* [http://www.chezpanisse.com/pgalice.html Bio from Chezpanisse.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221123704/http://www.chezpanisse.com/pgalice.html |date=February 21, 2009 }} 
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG3FA-fUcwU The Official Bay Area Book Festival Video Channel]: "Alice Waters, [[Jonathan Kauffman]], Tom Philpott: Revolution in Food" - May 9, 2018
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